SHAPE UPS!(the "pretty booty" sneakers!lol)

This post was inspired my the infamous Shape ups by Sketchers. They are said to mysteriously shape and tone your butt, legs, and improve posture, just by wearing them. Mmmmm, I don't know but I am quite curious. I tried them on at Macy's and they felt like moon shoes. Like I was walking on a cushiony platform or something-it was weird lol. My sister actually got a pair recently and I told her send me a video and some snap shots so I can post them on my blog and you all can give me your feed back. Have you tried them or know anyone who has tried them? Did they get results or what?! The ones I tried one where not that "visually appealing", in my opinion, but my sister got hers from a Finishline in NC and they are actually kinda cute... Very wearable... My presumption is that they work with the same premise as the high heeled shoe. If you where heals all the time, it visibly tones your calves and heiny because its like you are constantly flexing; like you are on your tippy toes. If you stand like that, it forces you to stand up right and erect. So I would say that they are like high heels, minus the corns, bunions, and back pain LOL.

Tragic Loss to the Fashion World: Alexander Mcqueen

As many of you may know by now, fashion Icon, Alexander McQueen was found dead in his London home this morning. Some sources are not admitting to it, but many sources are saying it was suicide. Not only was it suicide, but it was suicide by hanging.... I am so traumatized because I would never think that someone like him, who seemingly had it all, money, success, friends, health, and such a prominent influence over the fashion world, would take his own life. He was only 40 years old and did not even scratch the surface of what his incredible mind would have offered us. 

From my understanding, him and his mother were really close, and she had just died a week before. The woman who first gave him his start by buying his entire first collection ever, Isabella Blow, committed suicide 3 years prior, after finding out she had ovarian cancer. It was said she tried to commit suicide several times after finding out of her illness, but finally succeeded after injesting weed killer fluid. Mcqueen was totally devastated. Also, pressures from having to reveal his new line in Paris and his secondary line, McQ, was to be presented TODAY as part of New York Fashion Week. KCD, the PR company handling the show, says the presentation is canceled obviously.

The Invitation:

All this happened days before London Fashion week. 

I'm totally speechless. 

All you psychology majors out there could  attest, that this amount of pressure, stress, and grief, is enough to drive anyone insane. But just to try and imagine the state of mind a person must be in to actually take their own life... What hopelessness.  Does this seem like a man that would be hopeless? I dont know.....You just never know anymore...

If you click the link below, you will get to see some of his designs, including his most recent which come off a little demonic in my opinion..... You tell me. 

Alexander Mcqueen Spring Collection 2008-Fall 2010 


"Lee McQueen influenced a whole generation of designers. His brilliant imagination knew no bounds as he conjured up collection after collection of extraordinary designs," British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman says in the Daily Mail. "At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over. His death is the hugest loss to anyone who knew him and for very many who didn't."




Very brief picture bio:

Daphne Guiness wearing Alexander McQueen

McQueen's infamous 10'inch stilletos, also can be seen in Lady GaGa's Bad Romance video

Mcqueen and his Mum 2001

Alexander McQueen and Sara Jessica Parker @ the Costume Institute Gala in 2006

McQueen and Isabella Blow 2003

Mcqueen @ Isabella Blow's Funeral in 2007