Alexander McQueen

This man work had change Fashion in so many way….OMG I dont know what to said, i am in shock.

Here are some quote from the The Times

“Alexander McQueen, one of Britain’s most successful fashion designers, was found dead today at his home in London after committing suicide on the eve of his mother’s funeral.

Speculation mounted tonight that McQueen had been unable to come to terms with the death of his mother, who died on February 2 and whose funeral is to be held in East London tomorrow.

A spokeswoman for the designer said: “Mr McQueen was found dead this morning at his home. We’re devastated and I hope you understand that out of respect to his family and his colleagues we’re not going to be making any further statement.”

His death comes just days before London Fashion Week, which is due to open on February 19, and as final preparations were being made to unveil a spring collection in Paris

McQueen was one of six children born to an East End taxi driver. He left school at 16 and started his professional life as a tailor’s apprentice on Savile Row, where his clients included Mikhail Gorbachev and the Prince of Wales.

After spending some time working for Koji Tatsuno, he went to Milan to work for Romeo Gigli, then enrolled on his return at the Central St Martins School of Art and Design – where Isabella Blow bought his entire graduation collection and persuaded him to launch his career under the name Alexander McQueen – using his middle name rather than his real first name, Lee.

His early runway collections relied largely on the shock factor, but McQueen hit the mainstream when he was chosen to succeed John Galliano at Givenchy in 1996. He stayed with the fashion house until 2001 but left to concentrate on his own label which was 51 per cent owned by Gucci.

Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, said: “Lee McQueen influenced a whole generation of designers. His brilliant imagination knew no bounds as he conjured up collection after collection of extraordinary designs.

“At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over.

“His death is the hugest loss to anyone who knew him and for very many who didn’t.”

the designer Karl Lagerfeld had a more sombre reflection: “In his (McQueen’s) work, he always flirted with death. We don’t know the reasons but it’s proof that success and talent alone are not enough to make someone happy. But there was always a little dehumanised side in his work, I found. Like a sort of detachment from the world and reality. Fashion is like that… If you don’t have a solid stomach and your head screwed on, you are exposed to anxieties, to things like that.”

via The Times

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