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Remembering Alexander McQueen’s Most Fantastical Catwalk Moments

Alexander McQueen was a visionary. Over the course of his 18-year career, the designer’s presentations for both his eponymous label and Givenchy, where he served as creative director from 1996 to 2001, were the stuff of legend: 10 minutes of pure theatre that enthralled audiences with their audacity and conceptual brilliance. 

The recipient of four British Designer of the Year awards, as well as a CBE, and now heralded as a genius, it’s easy to forget that McQueen’s creations were divisive from the offset. His 1992 graduate collection, entitled Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, included a coat printed with thorns and locks of McQueen’s own hair sewn into the garments. It set the tone for the shows that followed: Taxi Driver paid homage to Martin Scorsese’s troubled protagonist Travis Bickle; Highland Rape was a commentary on England’s violation of Scotland; and The Hunger showcased transparent bustiers filled with worms. For Dante in 1996, a skeleton was seated front row, while the 1997 show It’s a Jun

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Alexander McQueen

British fashion designer (1969–2010)

This article is about the designer. For the brand, see Alexander McQueen (fashion house). For other uses, see Alexander McQueen (disambiguation).

Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier.[2] He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001.[2] His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the Council of Fashion Designers of America International Designer of the Year award in 2003.[2] McQueen died by suicide in 2010 at the age of 40, at his home in Mayfair, London, shortly after the death of his mother.[3]

McQueen had a background in tailoring before he studied fashion and embarked on a career as a designer. His MA graduation collection caught the attention of the fashion editor Isabella Blow, who became his patron. McQueen's early designs, particularly the radically low-cut "bumster" trousers

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Born in the East End and the son of a taxi driver, Alexander McQueen was the quintessential bad boy made good. He had brains and brawn, having survived over ten years as a solo designer and being brought into the Gucci Group stable, which bought a 51 per cent stake in his company 2002. In 2008, his company not only turned a profit but was also opening new stores from LA to Beirut. He was awarded the coveted Designer of the Year Award at the British Fashion Awards four times.

  • Alexander McQueen was born in 1970 in the East End of London - the son of a taxi driver.
  • He left school at 16 and trained on Savile Row at Gieves & Hawkes, where he reportedly once embroidered a suit for the Prince of Wales with the words "I am a c**t" (in the lining).
  • In 1991 his entire degree show was bought by influential stylist Isabella Blow, whose later suicide in 2007 led to him dedicating his entire spring/summer 2008 collection to her memory.
  • He earned his master's degree in fashion design from London's Central Saint Martins (formerly Central Saint Martins College of Art a

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