Inventor of the Lobster Claw Bootie, R.I.P.
Sadly, we must mourn the sudden passing of fashion designer Alexander McQueen at the unsettling age of only 40—McQueen, who so recently captured my heart as the inventor of what the New York Times called the “lobster claw stiletto bootie,” pictured here, perhaps the most aquatically sensual shoe ever created. The Times wrote:
The boot transformed the models’ feet into … the claws of some futuristic crustacean. … McQueen, influenced by On the Origin of Species, presented a kind of evolution in reverse: from the sea we emerged; to the sea we will return.
