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"  Last night, I finally finished reading The New Yorker&amp;#039;s annual Style issue. From Alexandra Jacobs&amp;#039; look at the female fantasyland of Polyvore (and its three unlikely software engineer founders) to Rebecca Mead&amp;#039;s profile of Italian sportswear designer Brunello Cucinelli (&amp;quot;[a name] better known within the fashion industry than outside of it,&amp;quot; the author sensitively observes), this issue is not one to let fall to the bottom of your to-read pile. Most memorable of all, though, is the ethereal cover art\u2014a &amp;quot;mixed acrylic and coal on paper&amp;quot; rendering of one of Alexander McQueen&amp;#039;s Spring 2008 Isabella Blow-inspired headpieces\u2014by artist Ana Juan. I asked Juan why, of all the designer&amp;#039;s looks she chose this particular one to commemorate him after his untimely death last month. &amp;quot;I think it was the most poetic as a metaphor of death,&amp;quot; the longtime New Yorker contributor says. &amp;quot;The idea was to express a certain melancholic beauty without forgetting the Spring flair.&amp;quot; Of all the many McQueen tributes we&amp;#039;ve seen over the past few weeks, Juan&amp;#039;s is the most economical but also the most hauntingly beautiful. \u2014Johanna Cox   Juan&amp;#039;s original artwork was flown to New York City for print and is now back in Madrid with the artist (Photos: Imaxtree and newyorker.com) Follow ELLE on Twitter.    Become our Facebook fan! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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