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Back when the world was normal, I would probably have been fine with this book taking up permanent residence on my coffee table, but I'm finding that McQueen's tortured and dark outlook on the world is more relevant than ever. I got this exhibit catalog for Christmas, although I never got to go to the exhibit itself, which was more than a decade ago at the Met in NYC. It's a poignant trick, a reminder that McQueen's personal demons tempered his aesthetic as much as his anti-establishment politics and wild imagination . Lee did care about the commercial side of the industry, but what most people remember are the shows. McQueen’s brilliance is celebrated in this sumptuous tome that accompanies the Costume Institute’s spring retrospective.
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. The fact that this catalog is still being published alone should speak to the beauty of the book itself and its contents. Going through each page was like seeing the Plato’s Atlantis collection for the very first time again and again. This book is primarily an exhibition catalogue assembled for McQueen's show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art based on his show "Savage Beauty.
McQueen was always my favorite designer, back in the days I got Vogue, and the incredible photos in this book show why. His inspirations, gothic romance, particularly Victorian gothic, English snd Scottish heritage, romanticism, naturalism, female sexuality as a weapon, are all things that are inspirational to my own art and self.
A visually beautiful tapestry of art that is an expression of Alexander McQueen’s growth from a working class family to creating high couture for the upper echelons of global society.The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum’s Alexander McQueen retrospective has proven so popular that the exhibit has been extended until August 7. The exhibition catalog—with its gorgeous images placed alongside provocative, incisive, and often puzzling conversational quotes from the designer himself—makes for an interesting way to get a peek at the show .