Some of these pieces are mind-boggling but yet beautiful in their own unique way. Alexander McQueen's creative director, Sarah Burton, has taken the luxury fashion house to being nominated for two London Design's Museum's Design Awards nominations, which will be presented in April. The two Alexander McQueen nominees are the the Duchess of Cambridge's Alexander McQueen by Sarah Burton wedding dress and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition With that being said, this years Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer Collection is a tribute to the late English magazine editor, Isabella Blow.
ALEXANDER McQUEEN
2012 Resort Collection
Behind the scenes of Alexander McQueen 2012 Spring Collection
The spring and summer, mainly spring, fashions are being shown in Paris,France this week. Alexander McQueen, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Armani, Versace and countless other design houses are in full force showing their haute couture lines. This is when the little girl in us can once again dream of plying dress up in some very chic and at times off the wall, fashion. Love them or hate them here are some examples of 2012 Spring Collections, starting with the House of Dior without John Galliano at the helm for the first time. But despite his absence Dior seems to have done well this fashion season with Dior's acting creative director, Bill Gaytten, with a more lady-like feel to the line :
"Going to California" is the seventh song on Led Zeppelin IV and it was released on November 8, 1971. It has a wistful folk-style sound, with Plant on lead vocals, John Paul Jones played the mandolin and Page played an acoustic guitar. It is also 3:31 long.
The song is reportedly about Joni Mitchell, who was the target of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant infatuation. Plant would often say the name "Joni" after the following stanza, when "Going to California" was performed live:
To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays the guitar and cries and sings
In a 2002 'Spin' magazine interview, Plant said that the song " might be embarrassing at times lyrically, but it did sum up a period of my life when I was 22." In another interview with the same magazine, in 2007, Plant stated that the song was about "Me reflecting on the first years of the group, when I was about...20, and was struggling to find myself in the midst of all the craziness of California and the band and the groupies...."
"Going to California" started out as a song about California earthquakes and when Jimmy Page, audio engineer Andy Johns and band manager Peter Grant went to Los Angles to mix the album, they by chance experienced an earthquake. At this time the title of the song was "Guide to California".
At Led Zeppelin concert, "Going to California" was performed during the bands acoustic sets, first played on their Spring 1971 tour of the United Kingdom. Led Zeppelin's live performance of the song at Earl's Court 1975 is on the second disc of the Led Zeppelin DVD.
Plant performed the song on his solo tours of 1988/1989 and at the Knebworth Silver Clef show in 1990. He again performed it on his 2005 Mighty ReArranger tourwith a synthesizer and a double bass added
GOING TO CALIFORNIA
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to California with an aching in myheart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chance on a big jet plane
Never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to wake
Seems the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch in the noseand it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking,
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La, la, la, la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard, as it seems.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A quick "HELLO" to everyone. I know I haven't posted anything yet this month, HECK I haven't posted anything this year. So just a quick note to all hoping that you all had a good New Year and that things are going good for you. For me it's been cases of being busy, lazy and cats holding me hostage to where if they are not getting all the attention then I am in trouble with them. But for now I am back and working on another post. Hopefully, I will have it up sometime this week. So enjoy the blog as I have noticed that you have been doing and I thank you for it, and I will get back to you with a new post a soon as I can, especially with a cat holding one hand captive.
