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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Hardcover

Author: Visit Amazon's Andrew Bolton Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0300169787 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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“McQueen’s brilliance is celebrated in this sumptuous tome that accompanies the Costume Institute’s spring retrospective. The hologram cover makes it a collector’s item.”—Harper’s Bazaar (Harpers Bazaar 2011-05-01)

“….the definitive reference of Lee Alexander McQueen.”—Dean Mayo Davies, I-D Magazine

(Dean Mayo Davies I-D Magazine 2011-05-01)

“Many books will come dedicated to his genius, but Savage Beauty will remain a beacon.”—Janice Breen Burns, Sydney Morning Herald

(Janice Breen Burns Sydney Morning Herald 2011-06-01)

“This book … helps illuminate McQueen's artistic process. Recommended for readers with an interest in contemporary fashion.” —Library Journal

(Library Journal)

“Excellent catalogue” —The Huffington Post

(The Huffington Post)

“For those still wanting to view McQueen's fashion creations, the book shines on.” —Lonny Magazine

(Lonny Magazine)

“ The catalog—with its gorgeous images places alongside provocative, incisive, and often puzzling conversational quotes from the designer himself—makes for an interesting way to get a peek at the show for those of us who won’t be lucky enough to make it to New York this summer.”—Creative Loafing

(Creative Loafing)

"[T]his book itself is a showstopper."—C. Donaldson, Choice

(C. Donaldson Choice)

“An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British designer.”—Carola Long, The Financial Times (Christmas Books)

(Carola Long The Financial Times (Christmas Books) 2011-12-26)

Winner of the Awards for Excellence in 2011, as given by the Association of Art Museum

(2011 Award for Excellence Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) 2012-06-06)

Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the Art category

(Book of the Year Finalist ForeWord Magazine 2012-06-06)

About the Author

Andrew Bolton is Curator at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Susannah Frankel is fashion editor of The Independent newspaper. Tim Blanks is contributing editor of Style.com.

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• Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; First Edition edition (May 31, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300169787
• ISBN-13: 978-0300169782
• Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 - 11 February 2010) was an icon in the fashion industry. He is currently the subject of a spectacular exhibition of his works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and this book serves as a catalogue for that exhibition. From the lenticular cover by Gary James McQueen ('Lenticular printing is a technology in which a lenticular lens is used to produce images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles') to the layout or deign of the book itself to the extraordinary photography (by S?lve Sundsb?) this book is an art piece by itself.

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. His uses of fabric and elements not usually considered wearable resulted in very bizarre and at the same time hauntingly beautiful creations that, placed on mannequins, could be considered sculptures. And that is how the exhibition and the catalogue are constructed. 'The Romantic Mind' shows soft fashion lines against a concrete backdrop, 'The Romantic Gothic' recalls a term McQueen used for his designs - 'the Edgar Allen Poe of fashion', 'Romantic Nationalism' is a display of the Scottish versus the British mindset transformed into clothing, and the Objects gallery reveals strange objects of many types that explain how he viewed the world.

There is a fine Preface written by Andrew Bolton who curated the exhibition, an Introduction by Susannah Frankel, an interview by Tim Banks with the now almost equally famous Sarah Burton (designer of Kate's Middleton's Royal wedding gown).

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