Alexander Mcqueen Savage beauty

He was the son of a simple taxi driver from East London, he became one of the greatest fashion designers of all time. Alexander McQueen has that kind of talent impossible to ignore. Irreverent and delicate with a mixture of tradition and punk attitude his style is unforgettable.

He studied at Central Saint Martins and he gained working in the tailors of Savile Road,  here is where it gets good at cutting clothes, and in the theatrical costumeria of Berman's and Nathan's.

McQueen is irreverent, hates rules, is fascinated by the grotesque, loves to shock. His shows are theatrical, excessive, uncomfortable touch on issues such as violence, rape, death. He brings to the catwalk low-rise jeans, the "bumsters", a model with amputated legs, with the Voss collection he focuses on a box of plexiglas, inside the writer Michelle Olley with face obscured by a antigas mask. And so he distorts the usual concept of a model. His talent is visionary.

Each show goes one step further: robots spraying color on Shalow Harlow, when cocaine scandal overwhelms Kate Moss, he transformed her into a beautiful hologram wrapped in organza. His career is the mirror of his obsessions: nature, technology, theater, tailoring.

Alexander McQueen is now back in London with his Savage Beauty, an exhibition curated by Claire Wilcox, already realized in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and will arrive on March 14 at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

"Savage Beauty is a celebration of the most creative and talented designers of our time" - says Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander McQueen in 2010, after the death of the designer, and his collaborator "Lee was a genius and a true visionary who pushed boundaries, challenged and inspired. He believed in creativity and innovation and his talent was limitless. ". The retrospective with sixteen thousand tickets sold is going to be the event of 2015 not to be missed.

Here are 5 reasons to visit Savage Beauty. 

#1. Will be larger than the original. Compared to the retrospective at the Met is now added 30 new pieces thanks to collectors as Katy England, Annabelle Neilson and even garments from the private collection of Isabella Blow. Together all these objects form a 200 ensembles including clothes and accessories among which a crown of thorns of ss 2008 collection, a sequin top with portraits of the Romanov children and the famous armadillo shoes.

#2. The exhibition will include his rare first creations. Inside Savage Beauty you will see the early work of McQueen dating back to the early 90s, including graduate collection "Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims", entirely bought by Isabella Blow, supporter, patron and friend of the designer. 

#3. Cabinet of Curiosities. In the heart of the exhibition, this installation includes unique pieces created by the designer. They are real treasures like the hat with birds that nest in the collection aw, 2006 "Widows of Culloden" collection, the hat with butterflies created by Philip Treacy for the line ss 2008 or jewelry-jaw.

#4. The 6 main sections that divide the exhibition are linked by romance.                                                                              The first is "The Romantic Mind" focuses on the method of cut and construction of clothes used by McQueen. "Romantic Gothic" resumes the designer's continuous exploration of the dualism between light and darkness, between life and death. The obsession with Scottish tradition and the British Empire is evoked in "Romantic Nationalism", while that for the exotic, the remote will be in the "Romantic Exoticism". The nature, forms and materials, its appearance raw occupy large space in "Romantic Naturalism" and "Romantic Primitivism." 

5 The famous hologram of Kate Moss will be in full size. The ethereal finale of the Fall-Winter 2006 show will occupy an entire room. Using Pepper's Ghost, a technology of the nineteenth century invented by John Henry Pepper for a stage of Charles Dickens, will relive the magical image of the model.