article_snippet: (CNN)You would be pressed to find a designer who appealed to the imagination as much as Alexander McQueen.
article_snippet: A favorite with A-listers and fashion editors alike, Alexander McQueen was renowned for Alexander McQueen Gothic sensibilities, innovative textiles (think shells, horns and hair) and highly conceptual runway shows, as well as Alexander McQueen bad boy antics behind the scenes.
article_snippet: (Along with the usual drinks, drugs and parties, Alexander McQueen once claimed to have stitched profanities into the lining of a jacket for Prince Charles.)
article_snippet: Five years after Alexander McQueen death, interest in the designer hasn't waned, least of all in Alexander McQueen home town of London, where, starting this month, Alexander McQueen's being commemorated with an extensive, expensive retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
article_snippet: London-born McQueen: Savage Beauty, a re-staging of the 2011 exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, summarizes and contextualizes McQueen's 18-year career through an elaborate display of 244 garments and accessories.
article_snippet: After dropping out of school at 16, Alexander "Lee" McQueen honed Alexander "Lee" McQueen tailoring skills on Savile Row, graduated with an MA in fashion design from the city's prestigious Central Saint Martins college, and used the V&A's archives to research Alexander "Lee" McQueen collections.
article_snippet: A longtime fan, Fashion journalist Melanie Rickey has coauthored the upcoming release Inferno: Alexander "Lee" McQueen (Laurence King), a coffee table book of interviews and images from photographer Kent Baker, which documents March 1996
article_snippet: McQueen was an artist whose medium of expression was fashion," McQueen says.