Insiders #100: Tim Blanks

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“A strange sense of loss seeps from fashion for Fall 2015,” wrote Tim Blanks of the A/W15 Alexander McQueen show on style.com. “Maybe it was the mourning exhibition at the Met; maybe it's being fed by binge-watching Penny Dreadful or, for the more arcane among us, The Crimson Petal and the White.” One of the many pleasures of reading something by Blanks is seeing how deftly he sneaks in both high and low references into his work, able to distill a collection with his sharp, concise style…