and] photographs of mannequins in McQueen pieces showcase every stage of the designers innovative, provocative and influential 19-year career. I have always loved the mechanics of nature and to a greater or lesser extent my work is always informed by that. Her devotion to McQueen was not initially shared by others in the London fashion crowd, who did not quite know what to make of this awkward son of a cab driver. Hair was either plaited tight to the head in mounds or sculpted into fin-like peaks, while the contours of models’ faces were distorted with prosthetic enhancements, both features connoting biological adaptation. The installation curated by Andrew Bolton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is absolutely wonderful, astonishing, extraordinary!

Over and again, McQueen's spectacular catwalk presentations unleashed powerful feelings as compelling sources of aesthetic experience. At the age of nine or 10, McQueen started to be sexually abused by a violent man – Terence Anthony Huyler – who was married to his sister Janet.The young McQueen also watched powerless on several occasions when Janet was beaten or half-strangled by Huyler. With over 340,000 copies sold, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty remains an indispensable perspective on the groundbreaking fashion designer. wonderful pages showcasing the phenomenal mind of the late fashion designer with 250 colour illustrations to hold the attention of the reader. Alexander McQueen’s romantic sensibilities expanded his imaginary horizons not only temporally but also spatially. If you do not know the back story for each collection, you are missing most of the pleasure of understanding his take on the subject, and judging it solely for its appearance.

McQueen's romantic sensibility propelled his creativity and advanced his fashion in directions both unimagined and unprecedented. No matter how I try to express my concern over the mystification of the tragic genius, the only way to end this is to say, What a shame. In an essay in the New Yorker, Judith Thurman wrote that McQueen’s work could be understood as “confessional poetry”, but it is more like expressionist cinema, a series of visual distortions designed to explore inner emotional truths.

The fashion designer Alexander McQueen borrowed the shape of the cuirass but made a few tweaks to the design. In place of the hugely evocative and wildly dramatic wide-angled images for which McQueen's presentations were well-known, are Solve Sundsbo's quieter and mournfully lovely photographs of his work, often seen up close, and that elevate McQueen from showman to bona fide artist .

It must make a very spooky coffee table book, as the eyes follow you and manifest in the stylised skull before the rest of McQueen's face. On the final day of the show in New York, the Met stayed open until midnight to allow all the people in the queue a chance to see it. The Museum of Savage Beauty explores the hidden stories and craftsmanship behind some of the most remarkable objects made by Alexander McQueen and his creative collaborators. Bolton includes profound commentary from the designer himself, plus an incredible interview with Sarah Burton.This is a fine tribute to a fashion designer and conceptual artist who died far too young but whose contributions to contemporary fashion and art will live on.

He was an incredible tailor and his garments always have an exquisite and distinctive silhouette, usually with the waist emphasised. In Eshu (Autumn/Winter 2000), named after a mischievous spirit in the Yoruba religion, he devised a silver mouthpiece, designed to look like tribal jewellery, worn by a model whose ears drooped under the weight of silver hoops as big as dinner plates.You were able to photograph McQueen’s works on live models because they weren’t accessioned Museum objects, right?