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    Saturday, February 7, 2015

    Why we’re all still mad about Alexander McQueen

    Five years after his untimely death, Alexander McQueen has never been more revered. Intimate behind-the-scenes pictures from his dazzling autumn 2009 collection – taken by his friend photographer Nick Waplington – will be shown at the Tate, ahead of a major V&A exhibition exploring his fashion legacy



    “It’s a sackable offence this collection,” said the fashion designer Alexander McQueen in February 2009, a month before his autumn/winter women’s ready-to-wear show in Paris called The Horn of Plenty: Everything But the Kitchen Sink. “It’s not safe in any way. It’s a punked-up McQueen It girl parody of a certain ideal, of a woman who never existed in the first place. It’s Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s Dior. It’s Valentino’s ladies who lunch… I want people to look at it and say, ‘What’s that? What’s that? What’s that? What’s that? What the hell is that?’”


    McQueen succeeded spectacularly. The Horn of Plenty, which lasted not even 15 minutes, was a retrospective on 15 shocking years in fashion: models wore fantastical, outrageous outfits and teetered on impossible platform heels; in their hair were spray-painted Coke cans, upturned umbrellas. They walked through a set that looked like a rubbish dump, including tyres, TVs and, yes, a kitchen sink. “Exceptional,” wrote the critic from the New York Times in his review. “A slap in the face to his industry.” One magazine editor dismissed it as “a collection inspired by Wall-E ,” but mostly they were dazzled. “That was the kind of show that puts your faith back in fashion,” said Miranda Almond, Vogue’s fashion editor.


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