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"   Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art  The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its Alexander McQueen exhibition to the public tomorrow morning\u2014and you won&amp;#039;t want to miss it. Each year we&amp;#039;re tempted to call it the most extravagant, the most in depth look at just one side of fashion, but this year it&amp;#039;s at least the most personal, and by far the most haunting. The exhibition starts with pieces from McQueen&amp;#039;s graduate collection from Central St. Martin&amp;#039;s\u2014the same one Isabella Blow bought in full\u2014which will familiarize even the least fashion savvy viewer with McQueen&amp;#039;s signature shapes. What follows is a maze of rooms constructed around McQueen&amp;#039;s most famous collections, each one peppered with quotes and explanations from the designer as if he&amp;#039;s narrating his life just for you. It starts with his work from Givenchy set against gilded mirrors (&amp;quot;I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.&amp;quot;). A glass case holds select looks from his posthumous collection and a wooden room lit with gold sconces displays his infamous Highland Rape collection (&amp;quot;People were so unintelligent they thought this was about women being raped\u2014yet Highland Rape was about England&amp;#039;s rape of Scotland.&amp;quot;) Though screens in the accessories room offer a look at the extravagant shows McQueen was famous for, it&amp;#039;s the realization of the Kate Moss hologram that will make you feel just a drop of the magic that went into a McQueen production. We&amp;#039;ll let the rest be surprising, but click through for a few of our favorite shots!                            "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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