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Victoria and Albert Museum Alexander Mcqueen Savage Beauty

The Drum’s design project of the week: The V&A’s Alexander McQueen exhibition

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By Natalie Mortimer, N/A

March 13, 2015 | 2 min read

Five years after the death of Alexander McQueen the exhibition of work by the British Fashion designer has landed at London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum.

The Savage Beauty exhibition, originally shown at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2011, has been edited and expanded for the V&A and features 66 additional garments and accessories, including some rare early pieces from McQueen’s work.

A new section has also been added to the exhibition, focusing on McQueen’s early London collections, while other new garments displayed include a red ballet dress from The Girl Who Lived in the Tree (A/W 2008) and a white feathered dress from The Horn of Plenty (A/W 2009).

Each section of the gallery features different music, film and installations to capture the feeling of McQueen’s catwalk shows. For example, a dedicated gallery is used to recreate the moment when model Kate Moss appeared as a holographic 3D image.

In total, the exhibition includes more than 240 ensembles and accessories, the largest number of individual pieces designed by McQueen and collaborators seen together.

They range from McQueen’s Central Saint Martins’ postgraduate collection from 1992 to his final designs for A/W 2010, completed after his death.

Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said: “I am thrilled that this magnificent show has come to London and feel passionately that the V&A is its natural home. Lee Alexander McQueen presented his work here during his lifetime and studied the museum’s wide-ranging public collections of tailoring, painting, art, photography and books as inspiration for his visionary designs, yet remained vigorously anti-establishment and a true provocateur.”

The exhibition will run from tomorrow (14 March) until 2 August.

Victoria and Albert Museum Alexander Mcqueen Savage Beauty

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