"Lee McQueen was a truly unique visionary
in the fashion world. A creator of beauty."
- Madonna
"When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there's ceratin hardness
to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off."
- Lee Alexander McQueen
THE BRANDS
Alexander McQueen is a is luxury fashion house founded by Designer Lee Alexander McQueen in 1992. Sarah Burton is its current creative director.
The house's early collections stood for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "l'enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion"), with trousers aptly named "bumsters" and a collection entitled Highland Rape.
Alexander McQueen staged lavish, unconventional, runway shows, such as a recreation of a shipwreck for his spring 2003 collection, spring 2005's human chess game and the Fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss dressed in yards of rippling fabric.
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McQ
In summer 2006 the company launched a diffusion line called McQ. The line offers lower-priced ready-to-wear clothes and accessories for men and women. The collections were designed by McQueen himself. The target group of the line are younger people.
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"I'm about what goes through people's minds, the stuff people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches."
-Lee Alexander McQueen
THE DESIGNER
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| Lee Alexander McQueen |
Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows. He is also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.
"With me, metamorphosis is a bit like plastic surgery, but less drastic. I try to have the same effect with my clothes. But ultimately I do this to transform mentalities more than the body. I try and modify fashion like a scientist by offering what is relevant to today and what will continue to be so tomorrow"
- Lee Alexander Mcqueen
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| Shoes from the fall/winter 2010/11 collection |
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Some of his greatest works. Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Look of the Autumn Winter 2001 collection with a golden fox skeleton
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| S/S 2008 |
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Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, 1996
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| The horn of plenty, March 2009 |
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| F/W 2008 |
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| S/S 2002 |
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| F/W 2010 |
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| F/W 2003 |
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| Design from 1996 |
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| S/S 2001 |
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| S/S 2007 |
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| Kate Moss is dancing on the McQueen Black Express Fashion Show |
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| S/S 2010 |
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| The horn of plenty, March 2009 |
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| March 2010, Show a few weeks after his death |
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| Supercalifragilistic, March 2000, Paris |
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| The horn of plenty, March 2009 |
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| Plato's Atlantis, S/S 2010 |
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| Sarabande, October 2006, Paris |
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| Supercalifragilistic, March 2000, Paris |
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