McQueen’s Collection Dazzles Paris One Last Time

Behind closed windows in this grand Paris townhouse Alexander McQueen came back to life one more time. For fifteen minutes, a select number of guests viewed the collection that Alexander McQueen started but never lived to complete.
A true celebration of life, the collection revealed a feast of colours and textures celebrating his skill and passion for spectacle. Inspired by the Old Masters of painting, fabric was drawn back to reveal gold embroidery, a feather skirt or a glimpse of flesh.
Prints reflected the gory fantasies of Hieronymous Bosch, while long, floating gowns traced the soft sweetness of a Botticelli Venus.
Known as the rebel of fashion, McQueen shot to fame with provocative ideas such as low-cut “bumster” trousers, but his later work was dazzling and bewitching rather than shocking. The designer took his own life in February, reportedly inconsolable over the death of his mother earlier last month and with a history of depression. The inquest into his death has resumed.