Alexander McQueen (British, 1969–2010)
SAVAGE BEAUTY
Dress, autumn/winter 2010–11
VOSS, spring/summer 2001
“There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.”
Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims (MA Graduation Collection), 1992
“The inspiration behind the hair came from Victorian times when prostitutes would sell theirs for kits of hair locks, which were bought by people to give to their lovers. I used it as my signature label with locks of hair in Perspex. In the early collections, it was my own hair.”Plato’s Atlantis, spring/summer 2010
Joan, autumn/winter 1998–99
“My designing is done mainly during fittings. I change the cut.”
Highland Rape, autumn/winter 1995–96
“[With 'bumsters'] I wanted to elongate the body, not just show the bum. To me, that part of the body—not so much the buttocks, but the bottom of the spine—that’s the most erotic part of anyone’s body, man or woman.”
“Bumster” Skirt
Dante, autumn/winter 1996–97
“I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.”
It’s a Jungle Out There, autumn/winter 1997–98
The Horn of Plenty, autumn/winter 2009–10
“It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle—everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.”
Eshu, autumn/winter 2000-01
“I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.”
“I believe in history.”
Windows of Culloden, autumn/winter 2006-07
Eclect Dissect, autumn/winter 1997-98
“[In this collection] my idea was this mad scientist who cut all these women up and mixed them all back together.”
Sarabande, spring/summer 2007
“I liked the padded hips because they didn’t make the [piece] look historical, but . . . more sensual. Like the statue of Diana with breasts and big hips. It’s more maternal, more womanly.”
Irere, spring/summer 2003
It's Only a Game, spring/ summer 2005
The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, autom/ winter 2008-09
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, autumn/winter 2002–03
“This collection was inspired by Tim Burton. It started off dark and then got more romantic as it went along.”
“Life to me is a bit of a [Brothers] Grimm fairytale.”
The Hunger, spring/ summer 1996
“Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places."
N. 13, spring/summer 1999
Emsemble, autom/ winter 2010-11
Untitled, spring/summer 1998
“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things.”
"Coiled" The Overlook, autom/winter 1999-2000
Alexander McQueen ,collections1992-2010
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