Alexander McQueen

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It was as if McQueen was taking the idea of armour a stage further, embedding the protection within the skin itself. Her devotion to McQueen was not initially shared by others in the London fashion crowd, who did not quite know what to make of this awkward son of a cab driver. To quote from the introduction of the book itself, "The latest in a long line of male homosexual designers who exploit women while pandering to their own fantasies.

Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonBut for McQueen, as it was for the Romantics, nature was also a locus for ideas and concepts. He first created a version of his signature “French cut” trousers for the 1993 collection Taxi Driver, inspired by the Martin Scorsese film as well as his dad’s profession. It attracted more than 660,000 visitors in three months, many of whom queued for five hours to get in. What do you think most contributes to the popularity and longevity of this book over the past decade? It was Sundsbø’s idea to make the live models look like mannequins using white body paint and post-production retouching.

With most books, we go through many rounds of cover designs, and it is often hard to get consensus on the right image.

He used digital imagery to weave and print dresses whose patterns accurately suggested the “thorax of a moth” or the “precise markings of a snake”.

It is no mean feat to express movement and life on static mannequins, but [photographer Solve] Sundsbo makes the designers creations float, dance, and strut.

For Thomas herself, a veteran fashion correspondent for American newspapers, it is obvious that, while Galliano was a creative costume-maker, McQueen was something more, a “once-in-a-generation talent” who used “fabrics and embellishments” to create sculptures “that happened to be worn”. As evolution advanced and each model charted the progression from life on land to life under the sea, their features changed. Koda, Harold, and Andrew Bolton, with contributions by Rhonda Garelick, Karl Lagerfeld, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, Kenneth E. Sensitive and intelligent introductions explore his career, working methods, and the complex psyche behind his dramatic creations.If you do not know the back story for each collection, you are missing most of the pleasure of understanding his take on the subject, and judging it solely for its appearance. Yes, he killed himself, but what actually contributed to his suicide, and if it was the pressures of his very high pressured responsibility, was it worth it?

During its first run at the Met in 2011, Savage Beauty’s popularity surprised everyone, including the museum’s curators and McQueen’s former colleagues. Each illustration became my favorite- page after page of the most exquisite fashion, beautifully presented and photographed. It also focuses on the highly sophisticated narrative structures underpinning his collections and extravagant runway presentations, with their echoes of avant-garde installation and performance art. Any book that inspires me to explore my own creativity, leads me to topics that I would like to know more about and that I am still thinking about after reading the last page, gets a five star rating. Published to coincide with the exhibition the title opens with a preface from Andrew Bolton, curator of The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an introduction by Susannah Frankel, Fashion Editor with The Independent newspaper and friend of McQueen.Alexander fue un genio de la moda y creatividad, su imagen de enfant terrible y estilo romántico gótico lo convirtió en el favorito de grandes artistas de la talla de Lady Gaga, así como de figuras respetadas de la alta costura como Tom Ford o Anna Wintour. The Friday before the show’s opening was the royal wedding, and Kate Middleton wore a McQueen dress created by Sarah Burton, who is interviewed in the catalogue. Garrels, Gary, Jon-Ove Steihaug, and Sheena Wagstaff, editors; preface by Karl Ove Knausgaard; essays by Patricia G.