Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen was born in Lewisham, London on March 17, 1969.. He became head designer of the Louis Vuitton-owned Givenchy fashion line and, in 2004, launched his own menswear line. He earned the British Fashion Council's British Designer of the Year award four times, and was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire. McQueen committed suicide in 2010, shortly after the death of his mother. At age 16, McQueen dropped out of school. He found work on Savile Row, a street in London's Mayfair district famous for offering made-to-order men's suits. He worked first with the tailor shop Anderson and Shephard, and then moved to nearby Gieves and Hawkes. McQueen decided to further his clothes-making career, and moved on from Savile Row.…

Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer who was born on March 17,1969 in Lewisham, London, to Ronald, who was a cab driver and Joyce McQueen, who taught as a social science teacher. He was the youngest of six children. He attended Carpenters Road Primary School and started creating designs for his three sisters to wear at a young age. At a young age e identified himself as a homosexual but did not come out to the public until he was 18. He was teased a lot as a child by students.…

1 is a flower dress that was designed by Alexander McQueen. It looks carefully planned because every aspect of it seems to be in the right place. The dress is very unusual in a sense that it gives the spectator a virtual bouquet garden tour. It is a nude silk that is cautiously festooned and embroidered with flowers of different colours and sizes. McQueen created the impression of a real flower garden by using different shades of pink, violet as well as white to represent the flowers. He also…

Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer. He was born in Lewis ham, London, United Kingdom. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996-2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. Alexander McQueen design the Louis Vuitton Givenchy . Alexander McQueen was born march 17, 1969. He died February 11, 2010 because he committed suicide. He was one of the youngest out of the six children’s. His mother's name was Joyce McQueen and his dad's name was…

CHAPTER 2 BRAND ANALYSIS 2.1 History Alexander Lee McQueen, a London born most influential designer of his time, left his school when he was just 16 to join Savile Row where he learned and mastered and pattern making. Not only that but he also had expertise himself in brutally sharp tailoring methods which ultimately became his signature. Lee McQueen (the real name of Alexander) born in 1969 and right from the age of 3 he started drawing pictures, said by himself in one of his interview that…

- His work is intentional in the sense that he uses fashion to tell his stories. His focus certainly is not on practicality. - McQueen’s work can be seen as intellectual. He analyses his cultural heritage and draws conclusions and lessons from it, which he shares with his audience. - And he certainly has amazing and impressive technical skills. If we add all this together, it makes perfect sense to qualify his work as art; ‘wearable art’. Also the fact that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New…

McQueen describes this outfits as if women had some kind of armor to defend themselves. McQueen grabs some influence from nature throughout his pieces “I have always loved the mechanics of nature and to a greater or lesser extent my work is always informed by that” this quote by McQueen almost connects with the art nouveau aesthetics. One of McQueen’s last clothing collections Savage Beauty, his designs portray women as fiercely characters. A famous quote by McQueen is that “I want to empower…

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Cars 3 is an animated sports film directed by Brain Fee. In the movie, Lightning McQueen (the main character), found himself fighting to stay relevant in the vast and ever-changing world of Cars. As new cars and superior models entered onto the race track, Lighting started to fall behind the batch. Thus, he tired reinvented himself to compete at a high level. In this process, he met a race car trainer, Cruz Ramirez, and together they tried to get McQueen back on the winning path. The movie…

meaning and the way names are spelled changes over time and across the world. Our names, meanings, nicknames, and why we were named what we were, are just a few ways that shape are uniqueness. Originating from the Greek name Alexandros, Alexander signified "shielding men" from the Greek word alexo, which means "to guard. Help" and the Greek word aner, which means "man". The name Alexander additionally has a place with a legend of Paris in Greek mythology and has a place with a few characters in…