Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

"Oyster" Dress, Irere, Spring/Summer 2003
"The top part of the dress is all fine boning and tulle, and the chiffon is all frayed and disheveled on the top," Sarah Burton says of this design. "The skirt is made out of hundreds and hundreds of circles of organza. Then, with a pen, Lee drew organic lines. All these circles were cut, joined together and then applied in these lines along the skirt. So you created this organic, oyster
like effect."

• Photos: New York Fashion Week 2011