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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN...
Alexander McQueen has spent a decade wiping the smiles off fashion-industry faces. In 1993, when the Londoner--now one of international fashion's great talents--launched himself, it was with a tiny fashion collection in an upstairs room. He showed a sensible skirt--printed with images of an electric chair...
...pioneer is the grimness of his vision. At times it reveals too much of the backstory of the gay son of a London taxi driver who grew up in welfare housing and whose sister would run home when she had been battered by her husband. No wonder McQueen's creativity has always reeked not of the innocence of youth or joyful fripperies but of brutal experience...
That this macabre imagination is coupled with dazzling craftsmanship gives the designer his heat. Beneath the shock of his antics is a natural talent coupled with technique acquired as a teenage trainee on Savile Row, the London street celebrated for handmade suits. After an apprenticeship of Dickensian harshness, McQueen harnessed his skills to the construction of cunning jackets, curved to just conceal the breasts, and trousers, called "bumsters," slung so low as to be rude...
...joy” to moviegoers. The heroes of black action pictures always triumphed over their enemies and the women were empowered. Mitchell also took special care to mention Rupert Cross, a little-known African-American actor who has had a very strong influence on both Jack Nicholson and Steve McQueen, two icons of the American cinema...