Alexander McQueen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1851778276 ISBN 13 : 9781851778270

Editeur : V & A Publishing, 2015

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Fashion is a big bubble, and sometimes I feel like popping it.'

Alexander McQueen, 2009

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. Accompanying the V&A's landmark exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, this comprehensive catalogue features 28 ground-breaking essays from expert fashion commentators and cultural scholars which examine the richness and complexity of McQueen s visionary fashion. The publication includes over 440 striking images, from intimate backstage portraits and editorials by leading fashion photographers to previously unpublished sketches and research boards from the McQueen archive.

At the centre of the book is a Cabinet of Curiosities gatefold with a specially commissioned photo shoot that showcases McQueen s breath-taking attention to detail. The book closes with an encyclopaedic survey of all of McQueen's London collections, from his 1992 MA graduate collection to his final collection, posthumously presented in March 2010.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORDS

Nadja Swarovski - Sponsor's Foreword

Jonathan Akeroyd - Foreword

Martin Roth - Director's Foreword

INTRODUCTION

Andrew Bolton - In Search of the Sublime

Claire Wilcox - Edward Scissorhands

No. 1 A SENSE OF PLACE

Christopher Breward - Su[i]ture: Tailoring and the Fashion Metropolis

Ghislaine Wood - Clan MacQueen

Louise Rytter - Central Saint Martins

Abraham Thomas - Drawing a Line

Susannah Frankel - The Early Years

No.2 ARTISTRY

Claire Wilcox - Plato's Atlantis: Anatomy of a Collection

Edwina Ehrman - Givenchy

Helen Persson - Walking Out

Anna Jackson - Refashioning Japan

Jonathan Faiers - Nature

Boy No. 3 SENSIBLITY

Catherine Spooner - A Gothic Mind

Eleanor Townsend - Memento Mori

Kirstin Kennedy - Layers of Meaning

Zoe Whitley - Wasteland/Wonderland

No. 4 VISCERA

Lisa Skogh - Museum of the Mind The Cabinet of Curiosities

Caroline Evans - Modelling McQueen: Hard

Grace Clare Phillips - Armouring the Body

Oriole Cullen - Crowning Glory

No. 5 SPECTACLE

Alexander Fury - Show, and Tell

Janice Miller - Making-up

Bill Sherman - Ghosts

Keith Lodwick - Coup de Théâtre

Jane Pritchard - Dance No. 6 Imagination

Alistair O'Neill - The Shining and Chic

Jefferson Hack - Fashion-able

Susanna Brown - Nightmares and Dreams

Encyclopedia of Collections - Kate Bethune

Chronology

Notes

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Picture Credits

Index

Biographie de l'auteur :

Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator, Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Professor in Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.