My flatmate is a costume designer for the Royal Opera House so now I have all these fantastic fashion coffee books in my flat that I’ve always wanted to get my hands on - and Savage Beauty has long been on the top of that list.

McQueen's early works gained him recognition as an enfant terrible in British fashion, receiving coverage with designs such as the "bumster" trousers. No sólo es un libro de moda y un libro de arte, sino un libro para mirar, admirar, disfrutar, inspirarse, escapar. There is detail enough to satisfy the student of fashion, and striking full-page images that convey McQueen's sense of style and his flair for dramatic statements.It is sturdy, feels raw and expensive, and of a fantastic size to extricate detail from (though it is also difficult to keep. Este libro incluye citas de Alexander, entrevistas con sus amigos y colabores más cercanos, así como fotografías de la muestra extraordinaria que realizó el Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nueva York en el 2011, realizada a un año de la muerte del diseñador, que incluyó 66 piezas de sus mejores vestidos, así como algunos diseños de sus primeras colecciones.

This is a fine tribute to a fashion designer and conceptual artist who died far too young but whose contributions to contemporary fashion and art will live on. But if that still isn't enough time for you to get down to see it, the next best thing to a New York City jaunt is the definitive monograph, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. 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 by renowned photographer Sølve Sundsbø; and a lenticular cover by Gary James McQueen.Kenny, Eric Kjellgren, Harold Koda, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Donald J. There is enough detail to satisfy the student of fashion and striking full-page images that convey McQueen's sense of style and his flair for dramatic statements. 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. 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. If you are more deeply into fashion and happen to love McQueen like I do, this is an incredible glossary and reference book to aid in your own projects.

Carpenter, Henry Colburn, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Maryam Ekhtiar, Douglas S. Goodreads reminded me of it by recommending the exhibition catalogue, perhaps the third good quality recommendation the algorithm has given me in nearly ten years.From his postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. 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. My book queue is far longer than my Netflix queue; I'm such a nerd I keep a categorized Excel worksheet of books I plan to acquire. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was named one of the Top Ten Best Books of 2011 by Library Journal, included in Time's list of Best Gift Books for 2011 and listed in the Best of Art Books section of The Wall Street Journal's Gift Guide.

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. Original brown cloth with holograph alternating between skull and portrait of the artist pasted onto cover with silver lettering on spine; no dustjacket as issued. and Sabine Rewald, with contributions by Dawn Ades, John Ashbery, Jacques Dupin, John Golding, Lawrence Gowing, William S.

This definitive publication about Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010) invites you into the creative mind and world of one of Britain's most brilliant, daring and provocative designers, and the many themes and references that shaped his visionary collections. There is minimal text, most of it being a summary of interviews with McQueen prior to his death and then with those he was close to after his unfortunate passing. Habe ihn wegen einer Kleinigkeit kontaktiert, bekam sofort eine Antwort, das Buch war wirklich makellos, perfekt verpackt und wurde umgehend geliefert. If you get past some of the outrageousness, and the double-talk behind it, you get to understand why his designs can be considered as art.