civil.A: Alexander McQueen-Five Years After His Death

2.11.2015

Alexander McQueen-Five Years After His Death

2.11.2010 – Iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen is found hanged at his London home just days after losing his beloved mother.
2.11.2015- Five years have passed since McQueens death and his vision is realy missed from the runways.
What have i loved most to Alexander McQueen...from where shall i begin...McQueens bloody-minded made every runway into a victory parade. He was always giving me the feeling that we -humans- are capable of anything. He had a vision, a great talent and he was a hard worker.

S.Burton-co-worker with Lee for 14 years and his successor aged 36-says:“It wasn’t really about fashion, with Lee.It was so much more than that. It was about everything that was to do with being alive. It was all the difficult parts, and all the beautiful parts as well. He’d come in with an idea for a collection and it would be, ‘It’s about a shipwreck.’ He was fascinated by death and decay, but he was full of energy. When he was up here, doing fittings, it was a whirlwind, like a dance with the mannequin.” Working with Lee, she said, made you feel alive."

5 years after his suicide the work of Alexander McQueen is to be honoured at the V&A with a major retrospective that opens next month.Titled Savage Beauty it was originally staged at the Metropolitan Museum in New York four years ago. And now that the initial shock of McQueen’s death has subsided, the man who emerges from the exhibition is a more nuanced figure. The Met exhibition was staged so soon after McQueen’s death that it became part of a grieving process,the London incarnation has a more celebratory mood.