UK fashion industry has always differed from continental Europe. While France and Italy are the world elegance, style, comfort, high style with new readings of male and female images, the British fashion designer included the imagination and create a fashion, timeless conservative society. One of them was Alexander McQueen, who lived a short and bright life, went into history as one of the most influential and colorful designers of modern times.

Comprehension of the basics

Alexander McQueen was born in 1969 in London, in the home, where in addition he had five more children. My mother kept the house, his father worked in the service of a taxi, and the family lived, to put it mildly, very rich. As the youngest child, McQueen decided to take on a certain share of caring for their sisters began to sew dresses for them. Lesson so fascinated him that he decided to devote his entire life.

In England, there was no shortage of institutions where young talents can get theoretical knowledge, honing them in practice. Alexander McQueen entered the Central St. Martins College, get a decent academic education. His final work created a furor, and the young designer was quickly enlisted in the ranks of the most promising names in the fashion industry of Great Britain.

After graduation, McQueen entered the apprentice to master with Savile Row - the same in which sewed the elegant costumes for the London dandies in the nineteenth century. Having an excellent base for tailoring skills, Alexander made his first steps as an assistant held designers. He first collaborated with Japanese designer Koji Tatsuno, who worked in London and then moved to Milan for Romeo Gigli. His collaboration with these brands, it was not accidental - McQueen went on his way, which he has set for himself, while still a young apprentice.

He grasped the basics skills of creating men's suit Men's Suits: tradition and modernity But it did not involve classics like what you can devote your life. His complex, exuberant temperament and outlook on a non-trivial clothes drew him to other forms, geometry, architectural design, typical of the Japanese avant-garde fashion, and some of the artists. In 1992 it appeared the brand Alexander McQueen, whom the designer to work on with varying success combined with the works for the benefit of other brands.

Successes and failures

Permanent collections of McQueen's success spurred the leadership of the French house Givenchy to invite him to the post of creative director of the brand. In 1995 he withdrew from the affairs of its founder Hubert de Givenchy, lasted only a year collaboration with British brand John Galliano. McQueen at Givenchy lasted exactly five years, failed the first collection, the constant scandals to control the composition of the brand, and finally left in 2001, decided to address the development of its own line.

From 1996 to 2003 he was four times named the best British designer of the year, was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in the same 2003 has received from the American Council of Fashion Designers of International Designer of the Year title.

In the UK at the beginning of the millennium was born a cult of personality of Alexander McQueen - a strange, rebellious, fastidious «enfant terrible» of a new era. He did not want to put up with the conservative world of fashion, in which few of these artists, and more and more people working on the order of a capricious public. It is difficult to consider a fashion designer, he was a real artist with all the peculiar genius depression and hysterics. Quarrelsome and scandalous, McQueen became a favorite designer of celebrities, which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Lady Gaga. His fashion shows resemble theatrical performances, because his idea of ​​the ready-to-wear at variance with generally accepted vision of "ready-made clothes."

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McQueen showed his collection in London and Milan, working his behalf boutiques around the world, he released the female and male clothing and accessories. It ended suddenly and tragically: in February 2010 the designer was found dead in his apartment. It was suicide, the final cause of which remains unknown. Someone rightly writes off this fatal step on depression Depression   after the death of his mother, who died a week earlier, while others cited as possible factors the financial collapse of the designer, who was found a multimillion-dollar debt. After the death of McQueen's creative designer of his house became Sarah Burton, who carefully preserves the traditions established by the founder of the aesthetics of the brand Alexander McQueen.

In 2011, Kate Middleton married to Prince William. By the altar future Duchess of Cambridge was in an elegant dress Alexander Mcqueen, created by Sarah Burton for her. In 2012, Burton has become a CBE for services to the British fashion industry. This is a great confirmation that the brand was in good hands.