Magnificent McQueen
’s creations more than rival those of Paris’ most revered couture ateliers: a silk dress might be painstakingly embroidered with a mass of coloured flowers, fabrics might be made using laborious centuries-old techniques, yards of organza transformed into ruffles which explode outwards, like a rose in full bloom.
McQueen himself loved to make the old new, getting lost in the wormholes of tradition and history – from Scottish Jacobite risings to the Victorian sanitorium – pulling what he found into the present via his runway collections.became a source of endless fascination; throughout his career McQueen used it to conjure both chastity and sex, concealment and exposure, marriage and mourning.
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