“… While he was revered in fashion, and his runway shows were among the most closely watched, almost no one could have imagined that, as the subject of a museum exhibition, Mr. McQueen would prove to be almost as popular as Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.”
“Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’’ at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a “celebration of the designer’s wild, unfettered and dark imagination: gothic Victoriana, dresses tufted with blood-red feathers, decorated with dying flowers or rattling with clamshells,’’ Suzy Menkes writes. Mr. McQueen died last year.
Here a digitally enhanced image by the photographer Solve Sundsbo transforms living models into museum mannequins in a photo from a book that accompanies the exhibition.
"The exhibition is exciting, stimulating and thought-provoking — and a raw vision of the wild McQueen imagination,” Ms. Menkes concludes.
EXHIBITION ENDS SOON!
Images and copy taken from the New York Times, Business of Fashion and IHT.
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