McQueen and I {Document}

Lee Alexander McQueen was born March l7,1969. Alexander McQueen is the rebel king of the catwalk. Alexander's first job was as a tailor. Tailoring for a clientele with money. Eventually he quit his tailor job due to wanting to learn everything about crafting fashion. 1989 Alexander applied in person to Central Saint Marks and got accepted that day. 1992 Saint Marks held their graduate fashion show. Alexaander was showing his senior collection and Isabella Blow was in the audience. After seeing Alexander McQueen's senior collection Isabella fell in love with the collection. Isabella Blow brought McQueen's collection for 5,000 British pounds while paying it off weekly in 100 British pound installments. Which in today money equals to $6,320.98 and $126.89. Alexander was the youngest of six children. His mother was a teacher and his father was a cab driver. At the age of twenty-four he had his first fashion show. Even though McQueen had this bad boy public image he was very sensitive person.  I think a lot of geniusly, creative, and interesting people are sensitive as well. By 2000 McQueen had did thirty fashion collections under a three year period. Now that McQueen was at Gucci his fashion shows was now thirty minutes long & costing Gucci a quarter of a million dollars for each fashion show. Isabella Blow committed suicide by poisoning herself. Five months after Isabelle Blow's death Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy held a fashion show in her honor. Minutes before McQueen's October,2009 fashion show was going to be live streamed the site crashed.  Criticism about his October,2009 fashion show was McQueen was never better. On the eve of his mother's funeral Alexander McQueen mixed cocaine and sleeping pills. Then he went to his wardrobe and hung himself. I think Alexander McQueen had lot of angry sadness,and bit of madness. Sadly aren't the great genius of their day.Rather it be music,fashion,or art most geniuses do have some madness, angry, sadness and end up dying tragically young. I think the way McQueen died was very violently and hugely theatrical. Sort of like his early work &his fashion shows at Gucci. Isabella Blow said "fashion gave me everything". I think that's true for both Alexander and Isabella and maybe fashion gave them nothing or took much away.

All the pictures are from Alexander McQueen's 1994 collection; Highland Rape