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Escaping into Music and Fashion Part II: Alexander McQueen
From High School Drop Out to World-Renowned Fashionista
As a closeted goth (which wasn’t exactly cool in Bronx public schools in the late 90s) who scribbled dark and depressing poetry on the margins of her notebooks, I create a kindred spirit in Lee Alexander McQueen. I saw “Savage Beauty” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at least three times. I liked that he did not fit the prototype of a fashion designer. Yes, he was gay but he was not well polished nor did he ooze with the sophistication of an Oscar De La Renta or a Tom Ford. He was a slightly chubby and brash working class kid from East London who looked more likely to thrust you around the college yard than to stich beautiful fabric together. McQueen entered the fashion nature in the early 1990s when logomania reigned supreme and Paris, the birthplace of haute couture, was losing its ground to looks inspired by the hedonistic rave and acid club subcultures of London and to the urban sportswear craze influenced by the hip hop styles of New York Urban area. McQueen was a complicated person: a creative genius and an overbearing boss, someone who held on to deeply buried chil
Obituary: Fashion king Alexander McQueen
'A controversial figure whose early creations earned him the title, hooligan of English fashion'
The fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who has been found deceased at the age of 40, was seen as controversial and inspiring in equal measures.
The son of a taxi driver, McQueen worked his way up from his roots in London's East End to the pinnacle of the British fashion industry.
The youngest of six children from a working-class family, he left school at 16 in 1985 with one O-Level, but his rise was rapid.
He started his career in Savile Row as an apprentice with Anderson & Sheppard before moving on to Gieves & Hawkes.
He reportedly once scrawled "McQueen was here" inside the lining of a suit belonging to Prince Charles during his stint on the famous highway for bespoke tailors.
'Bumsters'
It was an early example of his showmanship and desire to cultivate notoriety in a business where it can pay dividends.
In 1990 he studied for an MA at Central Saint Martins College, and two years later had his entire graduation collection bought for £5,000 by the late fashion stylist Isabella Blow.
Isa Queer Places: Central Sain Martins, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA, Regno Unito Kilmuir Cemetery, Portree IV51, Regno Unito Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier.[1] He is established 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 skillfully as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide in 2010, at the age of forty, at his place in Mayfair, London. McQueen was openly gay and said he realized his sexual orientation when he was six years old.[2] He told his family when he was 18 and, after a rocky period, they accepted his sexuality. He described coming out at a fresh age by saying, "I was sure of myself and my sexuality and I've got nothing to hide. I went linear from my mother's womb onto the gay parade".[3] In 2000, McQueen had a marriage ceremony with his partner George Forsyth, a documentary filmmaker, on a yacht in Ibiza.[4] The m Alexander McQueen Alexander McQueen . |