I find something terribly off with opening a McQueen style gallery for Gaddafi.... I mean, really? The guy does have his own individualistic sense of style for 4 decades... but coome on..he's like a Dictator..
Each year the Costume Institute hosts a major, fashion-based exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in N.Y.C. This year, it's "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty," celebrating the late designer's work. Last year, it was "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity." And come 2013, Mr. Talib hopes it'll be Gaddafi's turn.
Colonel Gaddafi’s aide wants to engineer a retrospective of “four decades of superior dress sense” He’s trying for 2013. Talib, an aide to Mr. Moussa Khalid Wahabb, the new Minister for Cultural Affairs in Libya, contacted ”New York Times” Fashion Editor Horacio Silva to score the deal, one only imaginable to fashion royalty.
Why do I find this extremely amusing!? Random thought: I wonder how much Gaddafi paid Talib to bring this up... I swear this has 'Gaddafi doings' written all over it Next year, its gonna be a fragrance, the year after a menswear line, this is how it starts..he is trying to blend into the modern world People! *jokes*
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He says...Indeed many of his clothes have featured in global magazines from the hundreds of state visits and functions he has hosted over the years for world leaders. All of whom are in agreement, ahumdullillah, that our President is one of the very best dressed men of the last half century. It is not only African and Arab leaders who have been influenced by his style and substance but many western rock stars and celebrities have also been won over by the Gaddafi look: most notably Michael Jackson in the 1980's copied the signature motif military style of our leader to great chart success on his own terms.
[H]style and substance but many western rock stars and celebrities have also been won over by the Gaddafi look: most notably Michael Jackson in the 1980′s copied the signature motif military style of our leader to great chart success on his own term
In the email sent to Silva:
…the compound next to the presidential palace was badly damaged in a bombing raid and we are very concerned should the same happen to the palace the result might be the destruction of over 3400 items of breathtaking sartorial magnificence: Decades of Military uniforms and leisure wear mostly hand made from the finest fabrics on earth that show not only President Col. Gaddafi’s strong commitment to leadership qualities but his relaxed and informal side as a devoted family man who loves to entertain.
If this is a joke, i sort of get it..kinda
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