Alexander McQueen

In BlogApril 17th, 2010

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The death of Alexander McQueen – his suicide – was a terrible blow. McQueen was the most creative designer in the world – one with a unique and powerful vision.  His amazing clothes were prominently featured in many of the exhibitions at The Museum at FIT – in London Fashion, of course, but also  in Love & War: The Weaponized Woman and  Gothic: Dark Glamour.  His style was often very dark, mixing beauty with terror and the macabre, and clearly this darkness was part of his innermost self.  It seems that he had contemplated suicide before, and yet his friends say that he was in a good place in recent months, until his mother’s death pushed him into despair.  The cover of “commons&sense man” magazine from Japan has a big smiling picture of McQueen on the cover. We have lost so much.