Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton with contributions by Tim Blanks, Susannah Frankel
- Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011
- Genre: Art
- Format: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
My collections have always been autobiographical, […].
This book is incredibly stunning. Amazed by how intuitively precise McQueen was with his work, I find the stills in this book even more breath-taking. It was a similar awing experience to glimpse one of his designs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue, several days ago.
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
His designs were all about the curves and angles of the fabric on a woman’s body, front frills and flaps, and everything he did was multi-dimensional: vividly 3D with deep stories and intense feelings lurking. In Highland Rape (1995), the story was about England’s rape of Scotland, which was controversial and somewhat disturbing to look at. His works were satirical, purely terrifying and beautiful. They gave me chills and radiated intimidating aura throughout different collections. Also, I suspect more loudness in his collections when he approached the end of his life.
We’re not talking about models’ personal feelings here, we’re talking about mine. It’s all about the way I’m feeling about my life.
McQueen was a man of absolute certainty in both fashion and way of life. To him, there were no grey areas, so his sense of beauty and ideology were exactly that. [3 Aug 2018]
