Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Fashion Studies)

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This is a fine tribute to a fashion designer and conceptual artist who died far too young but whose contributions to contemporary fashion and art will live on.

Alexander McQueen, famed for his astonishing and extravagant runaway presentations on the catwalk is revealed extensively in this remarkable book.

He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. I am only briefly touching on SOME of the topics embraced by McQueen that sent me down the rabbit hole. Careful editing means the result offers a powerful insight into the darker side of the designer’s mind.

McQueen was an iconoclast who used fashion as a means to communicate his artistic sensibilities and he delighted in controversy as a way to conjure emotion from viewers. My idea was always to show reality, even though I started at Savile Row and ended up at Givenchy in Paris; to depict the times I live in. El libro muestra los mejores atuendos de sus colecciones como: Jack stalks his victims (1994), Highland Rape (1995), Dante (1996), It’s a Jungle out there (1997), Joan (1998), No. Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer's career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house.He was always true to himself, carrying his vision to its completion - very quickly - because new and fresh ideas were constantly coming into his head. This weighty tome is published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to accompany their spring 2011 exhibition in celebration of McQueen’s work. Summary: "The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, will celebrate the late Alexander McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion.

The front cover of the exhibition catalog takes a page straight out of the Mapplethorpe playbook: a plastic lenticular panel features a frontal headshot of the designer that, when moved, morphs into a chrome-plated skull. But if that still isn’t enough time for you to get down to see it, the next best thing to a New York City jaunt is the definitive monograph, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. The show and book, Savage Beauty, offer plenty of ammunition to the charge that the fashion and art world will never see the like of Alexander McQueen again. Sensitive and intelligent introductions explore his career, working methods, and the complex psyche behind his dramatic creations. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty celebrates the astounding creativity and originality of a designer who relentlessly questioned and confronted the conventional parameters of fashion to express ideas about culture, politics, and identity.

The book also offers a review of all of his catwalk collections, illustrated with images by leading fashion photographers, and specially commissioned photographs that capture the his supreme skills and the breath taking theatre of his shows. Celebrating the astounding creativity and originality of designer Alexander McQueen, who relentlessly questioned and confronted the requisites of fashion An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British designer. Rare among designers, McQueen saw beyond clothing's physical constraints to its ideological and conceptual possibilities, addressing questions related to race, class, gender, religion, sexuality, and the environment. From his postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr.