Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Long Live McQueen—A new exhibition pays tribute to the extravagantly gifted fashion designer
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Sølve Sundsbø / Art + Commerce

VOSS, Spring/Summer 2001
"I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering," McQueen said. "It's so elaborate. In fact, I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women."

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