Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Fashion Studies)

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This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010) invites you into the creative mind of one of Britain's most brilliant, daring and provocative designers. He was always true to himself, carrying his vision to its completion - very quickly - because new and fresh ideas were constantly coming into his head.

A fitting image for a book that attempts to provide a glimpse into the mind of the reclusive late designer . Saint Laurent, Yves, with Diana Vreeland, René Huyghe, Pierre Bergé, Paloma Picasso-Lopez, Marella Agnelli, Catherine Deneuve, Duane Michals, Pierre Boulat, and Nicholas Vreeland. Accompanying the Metropolitan Museum of Art's landmark exhibition, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty provides an in-depth look at one of Britain's most brilliant and provocative fashion designers.The quotes and features are so insightful and really bring home a whole picture of what McQueen was like. The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum’s Alexander McQueen retrospective has proven so popular that the exhibit has been extended until August 7. Stunning book, a top quality book full of great photos, it's large and heavy and feels luxurious in your hands. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer's career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house.

There is enough detail to satisfy the student of fashion and enough visual splendour to entice and entrance coffee table book lovers.Contributions by Ian Alteveer, Kelly Baum, Kim Benzel, Deniz Beyazit, Monika Bincsik, Yaëlle Biro, John Byck, Iria Candela, John T.

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.Bolton, Andrew, and Amanda Garfinkel, with contributions by Jessica Regan and Stephanie Kramer, photographs by Anna-Marie Kellen.

Sometimes it was on such a level that maybe the fashion audience wasn't the right audience to tell it to, but what audience was right? McQueen, arguably more of a performance artist than even a fashion designer, used every influence, everything he learned, to form his art in his unique interpretational way. Published to coincide with an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by The Costume Institute, this stunning book includes a preface by Andrew Bolton; an introduction by Susannah Frankel; an interview by Tim Blanks with Sarah Burton, creative director of the house of Alexander McQueen; illuminating quotes from the designer himself; provocative and captivating new photography, a lenticular cover by Gary James McQueen. McQueen challenged and expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.

McQueen drew notice with his fashions that made femininity collide with masculinity, gowns and dresses that created a continuing dichotomy between life and death, lightness and darkness, predator and prey, man and machine.