The Costume
Institute with the “Savage Beauty” exhibition featuring the greatest
works of fashion genius Alexander McQueen
Last Friday,
the Royal Wedding of the heir to the throne Prince William and Kate Middleton
took place. In particular, there were many comments made about the bride’s
dress designed by Sara Burton who took over the Alexander McQueen label
following his unfortunate death a year ago.
This
British fashion designer started a fashion revolution thanks to his unique
concept of fashion and art. His designs, as well as his fashion shows were like
fleeting pieces of art in themselves but with an essence of great beauty and
delicacy. A transversal and contemporary artist that, following 19 successful
years working within the fashion industry, decided to take his life, thus
robbing the ever superficial world of fashion of one of its very few eminently
artistic designers.
To
celebrate the late Alexander McQueen’s creativity, the Costume Institute in New York has organised
an exhibition featuring his best contributions to fashion, and which attempts
to reproduce his particular outlook of the world that always oscillated between
reality and the virtual, the present and the future, and this world and a
fantasy world. A fashion genius that will now have an exhibition entitled
“Savage Beauty” taking place until the 31st of July dedicated
entirely to his work and featuring 100 pieces from his collection, as well as
70 accessories that he created over his prolific career.
The bulk of
the exhibition has been taken from the McQueen Archive in London,
as well as the Givenchy Archive in Paris,
where he worked up until the year 2000. As opposed to being displayed in
chronological order, the pieces have been organised by concept in sections such
as the subversion of traditional tailoring and the romantic literary traditions.
Alexander McQueen was a romantic, an artist whose vehicle of expression was
fashion, who tried to portray the depths of his imagination and whose work
reflected anger and torment marking his life and manifesting itself in the
transgressor presentation of his collections such as that in 1999, where the
model Shalom Harlow was “attacked” by robots that sprayed paint on her spotless
white dress.
Visitors
will be able to see the “Savage Beauty” exhibition in the Costume Institute in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York up until the 31st of July. The
museum opening times are 9.30 am to 17.30 pm from Tuesday to Thursday, 9.30 am
to 9 pm on Friday and Saturday, and 9.30 am to 17.30 pm on Sunday. The entrance
price ranges from 20 dollars for adults and 10 dollars for students, whilst
entrance is free for children under 12 accompanied by an adult.
Here is a video of one of the most bizarre but seductive presentations by Alexander McQueen:
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