Alexander McQueen

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Knuckle dusters get a tough-chick rep (and so do skulls!) but there is something quite delicate and pretty about this Alexander McQueen silver and Swarovski crystal ring. Even the most fragile souls will receive a heavy dose of hardened-edge when sporting this bauble.

Alexander McQueen may have used taxidermied animals as runway accessories last October, but a recent fashion show in Russia may have just showed him up. Porcupines, owls, hawks and dogs joined the models on the runway at designer Vladislav Aksyonov’s show at the Saint Petersburg’s zoo. How are you going to one-up that, McQueen?

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The audience was split on the designer’s beauty choices–like the exaggerated sex doll lips–but most agreed that the trash sculpture in the middle of the runway was kind of awesome!

(From left to right: Ermenegildo Zegna, John Varvatos, Alexander McQueen, Gucci, and Trussardi 1911)