Alexander McQueen and his fabulous collections

"Horrible child" of British fashion, "thinks like the devil, but cuts like an angel", "white crow". Such reviews can be found when reading about this British fashion designer. And, it would seem, he had to be calm and cold, strict and prim, as it should be correct Englishmen... However, he was an "eccentric", and England is also famous for "eccentrics".

Alexander McQueen biography.

Lee Alexander McQueen was born on March 17, 1969 in east London. Working area. His father is a taxi driver, his mother was a teacher. The family also had three daughters. Alexander McQueen's ancestors from his father's side are Scots. As a child, Alexander (for friends, just Lee), like all the boys from his area, hooligan, hated school, painted walls with graffiti, then punked. But he had one feature that he really surprised his father, Alexander loved to sew dresses.

And at the age of 16, Alexander McQueen gets a job in the workshops of Savile Row. Here they sewed men's suits for high society clients. Alexander continued to misbehave. He, in general, has always remained a bully. So he sewed pieces of fabric with the words "McQueen Been Here" into the lining of Prince Charles' jackets. But these were still flowers. The berries of the fashion world were ahead.

Soon, Alexander entered the St. Martin College of Art. Along the way, he worked for the Japanese designer Koji Tatsuno, as well as for the Italian fashion designer R. Gigli. In the College of Arts, various crazy ideas were encouraged, and Alexander could realize many of his fantasies, since he had a very rich imagination. Well, it is not surprising that it was after the presentation of the graduation collection that Alexander McQueen was called the "terrible child" of the fashion world.

Blood, dirt, tattered lace, unlaced corsets, bandages, skulls, creepy clownwomen - all this Alexander McQueen found a place on the catwalk, found a place where before that they expected to see only shine and luxury. “When I started putting on my shows, I tried to show the journalists what they didn’t want to see at all: hunger, blood, poverty. You look at all this "fashion party" in their expensive outfits and dark glasses and you understand that they have no idea about what is happening in the world, "he said, trying to justify his creepy shows. He was accused of shocking, cynicism. And when he took to the podium in 1999 girl, who lost her legs when she was two years old, but this did not prevent her from successfully playing sports, he was accused of using him to attract the attention and money of disabled people. He also said that his clothes make people more confident, and he wants them to help people with disabilities to be more confident and more optimistic about the world. About that show, Alexander McQueen said: “I will not change the people with whom I prepared this show for any supermodels… they have a sense of their own dignity… This is who I consider to be truly beautiful ..”. He seemed to hate fashion. The fashion as it is now, but at the same time stubbornly continued to study it. In addition to the scary shows, his shows were always interesting and unexpected. So in one of his collections, McQueen dressed the models with chess and placed them on the chessboard on which they were played. At another show, apparel was distributed to the audience so that they could more comfortably watch what was happening on the podium. And the premiere of the song Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" also took place at one of the shows of Alexander McQueen.

But apart from such "terrible" fashion, anti-fashion, strange fashion, Alexander McQueen sewed quite well and "ordinary" clothes.

And in 1997 he became art director at Givenchy House. “Pins in a noble House” - this is how journalists and eminent fashion designers interpreted his appearance.During his tenure at Givenchy, McQueen was named the best British fashion designer three times. "He is insane, but undoubtedly a genius" was said of him.

In 2001, Alexander McQueen leaves Givenchy and goes to Gucci Group, where he creates his own brand - Alexander McQueen.

In his personal life, he never hid the fact that he was gay. So since 2000, he lived in a civil marriage with the British documentary filmmaker George Forsyth. But this union was not long.

A close friend of Alexander McQueen was journalist Isabella Blow for many years. She committed suicide in 2007 after she was diagnosed with cancer. McQueen took her death hard.

And in February 2010, he will also commit suicide, Alexander McQueen will hang himself in his own apartment. This will happen after the death of his mother, who always and in everything supported her son. This is where the story of the "terrible tailor" ends. And the Alexander McQueen brand will continue to delight us with its chic collections, dresses, clutches, under the guidance of the designer Sarah Burton (Sarah Burton), a student of Alexander.