So I saw This Is It this past weekend and have been playing all of the old Michael Jackson hits ever since. (I'm still mourning!) While it was kind of heartbreaking to watch him barely hitting the choreography he used to nail with a fierceness (his moonwalk at the end of "Billie Jean" was barely detectable), I got goosebumps listening to him sing. It's easy to forget that MJ had an amazing voice underneath all that surgery.

But the most surprising aspect of the movie was the role that fashion played in the documentary. While I had already seen the paparazzi shots of him wearing Givenchy and Balmain, I was surprised to see Michael wearing those familiar peaked shoulder pads during rehearsal. (For the record, the idea of Michael Jackson wearing Balmain is cooler than the visual. The pointy shoulder pads weirdly highlighted his angular bone structure, making him look like a cartoon figure come to life in the process.)

The outfits got even more high fashion from there: Day-Glo bright Dior Homme jeans, glittery Alessandro Dell'Acqua trousers, which were my personal favorite MJ style moment of the movie, and a Balmain leather moto jacket, to name a few. It clearly signaled a new chapter in his stage persona. Keep in mind that the last time he performed a string of concert dates was during his buckled boots and shiny moonman suits HIStory stage. It's just too bad that we won't get a chance to see how his new sartorial chapter would have played out.