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Alexander McQueen "It was like I was a stallion being held back by a two-ton truck," said Alexander McQueen of his five years at LVMH designing for Givenchy. McQueen sprinted out of the gates upon graduation from Central St. Martin's in 1992. By then, he'd already spent seven years as an apprentice on Savile Row - and he was still only 23 years old. His first collections were designed more to attract attention than anything else. They did. With names like "The Birds" and "Highland Rape" it was hard not to. The showmanship would have fallen flat...
...Winners GISELE BUNDCHEN The kids will be so cute they'll make you puke. Model confirms she'll wed Leonardo DiCaprio DREW BARRYMORE Flossie the Dog saves actress from burning home. Husband Tom Green then bites Flossie ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It must have been that gold-plated dickey.British badboy is designer of the year...
...haute couture. Others saw him as its savior-the man who could bring excitement, and maybe even paying customers, back to the parlors of the couture houses. Excitement? Headlines? Galliano got both in droves. After a year, Arnault promoted him to Dior and moved another British bad-boy, Alexander McQueen, to Givenchy, arguing that good press is paramount and sales secondary...
...years ago Lockerbie restored its Christmas decorations. But it was last week, with the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, that the town seemed finally at peace. "There is a sense of relief that the trial is over and the verdict given," says local councilor Marjory McQueen. "I think Lockerbie has drawn a line under what happened...
...this season there were also the tempers. LVMH threw down the gauntlet by canceling Alexander McQueen?s last haute couture show for Givenchy on the eve of fashion week. The official explanation?production problems caused by the 35-hour workweek?didn?t fool anyone. McQueen had recently sold 51% of his own company to Gucci Group. More likely is the theory that LVMH wasn?t out to promote the defector. Yves Saint Laurent, who also recently sold his ready-to-wear business to Gucci, had some petty fun at his own show, seating the Gucci-appointed president in the third...