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British fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen was famous for causing controversy on the catwalk. Themes of sex, death, and commerce were often intertwined in his designs. He was head designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001, earning the title "enfant terrible" by the French media. His famous "Bumster" pants were one of the most provocative designs of the 1990s. Key collections included in the Archive: Highland Rape (FW 1995), Untitled (SS 1998) more commonly known as "The Rain" or  "Golden Shower" and No. 13 (SS 1999)


Alexander McQueen

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Aimee Scott

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1994

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1994 : Banshee

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1994: Banshee

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1994: Banshee

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1995: Highland Rape

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1995: Highland Rape

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1995

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1995 : Highland Rape

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1996: Dante

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1996: Dante

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1996

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1996 : Dante

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1997

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1997 : It’s a Jungle Out There

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1997: It’s a Jungle Out There

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1997: It’s a Jungle Out There

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1998: Joan.

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1998: Joan.

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1998

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1998 : Joan

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1998, “Joan”

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Laura Snelgrove

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1999: The Overlook

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1999: The Overlook

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1999

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1999 : The Overlook

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2000

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2000

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2001

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2001

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2001

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2001 : What A Merry Go Round

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2002

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2002 : Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2003

Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 2003 : Scanners

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Alexander McQueen, Fall/Winter 1995

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Veronica Maldonado

Alexander McQueen, Fall/Winter 1996

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Veronica Maldonado

Alexander McQueen, Fall/Winter 1999

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Veronica Maldonado

Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, Fall/Winter 2000

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Lydia Edwards

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer, 1994

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Molly Smith

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1994

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1994 : Nihilism

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1994: Nihilism

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1994: Nihilism

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1995: The Birds

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1995: The Birds

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1995

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1995 : The Birds

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1996: The Hunger

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1996: The Hunger

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1996

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1996 : The Hunger

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1997

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Veronica Maldonado

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1997

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1997 : Bellmer La Poupée

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1997: Bellmer La Poupée

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1997: Bellmer La Poupée

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1998: Untitled

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1998: Untitled

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1998

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1998 : Untitled

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1999

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1999 : No. 13

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1999: No. 13

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 1999: No. 13

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2000

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2000 : Eye

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2000: Eye

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2000: Eye

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2001

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2001 : Voss

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Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2003

Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2003 : Irere

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Alexander McQueen: Tradition, Rebellion, and the Spectacle of Contradictions

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Laura Snelgrove

Alexander McQueen’s “Bumster” Trousers

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Kate Bethune

Catwalk as Performance Space: Alexander McQueen

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Rosie Findlay

Givenchy, Autumn/Winter 1997

Givenchy, Autumn/Winter 1997

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Givenchy, Autumn/Winter 1998

Givenchy, Autumn/Winter 1998

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Givenchy, Autumn/Winter 1999

Givenchy, Autumn/Winter 1999

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Givenchy, Spring/Summer 1998

Givenchy, Spring/Summer 1998

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Givenchy, Spring/Summer 1998

Givenchy, Spring/Summer 1998 : The Japanese Garden

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Givenchy, Spring/Summer 1999

Givenchy, Spring/Summer 1999

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Givenchy, Spring/Summer 2000

Givenchy, Spring/Summer 2000

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Key Collection: Alexander McQueen, Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter, 1995

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Caroline Elenowitz-Hess

Key Collection: Alexander McQueen, Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer, 2001

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Caroline Elenowitz-Hess

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