Maybe from somewhere on high, Alexander McQueen's gleefully watching the rest of us below--across the vast worlds of culture, art, and fashion--squirm in anguish as we try to carry on with Fashion Week--a concept that suddenly seems redundant without McQueen's designs in the mix. While no shortage of eulogies flooding the web will feast on the salacious details of the visionary's passing, fewer will take the time out to comb through his body of work to look at his influence in arenas apart from fashion. And it's here that we look back at the more subtle ways McQueen was able to inform consumer culture.

● Lady Gaga's lobster claw heels in the "Bad Romance" video--a landmark moment for both Gaga and McQueen. No marriage of high fashion and pop ever seemed more poetic.

● Another pop star responsible for mainstreaming McQueen's designs is Rihanna. She can also be seen wearing McQueen here and here.

● He also dressed Madonna for the 1998s MTV VMAs--while she was going through her momentary goth phase.

● Although a major milestone for him (and for our previously satorially-challenged White House) is when the First Lady stepped out in one of his creations:

● But to really demonstrate his versatility, we need look no forward than some of the magic that resulted when Björk commissioned work from him. McQueen directed Björk's video for her single, "Alarm Call" off her album Homogenic. He also designed the album's cover art--as a response to the instructions that Björk gave him: That the character behind the songs of the album was someone who "had to become a warrior. A warrior who had to fight not with weapons, but with love."