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Lady Gaga: Alexander McQueen is Working Through Me

kty | April 13, 2011 7:12 am Alexander McQueen’s untimely death last year shocked the fashion world, and while Lady Gaga mourned alongside the designers and artists he touched, she believes his passing came with a purpose. “I think he planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote ‘Born This Way,’” the singer explains in the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I think he’s up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing.” In fact, in a twist of fate, Gaga’s record label moved the release date of “Born This Way,” dropping it on the one-year anniversary of McQueen’s death. Read More

Who Is Kate Middleton’s Mystery Wedding Dress Designer? Vote Now!

kty | March 7, 2011 6:08 pm Alexander McQueen’s head designer Sarah Burton is the latest person rumored to be creating Kate Middleton’s wedding dress, London’s Sunday Times reports. Burton’s camp denied the rumors, and Prince William’s people refuse to comment. But that doesn’t mean Middleton won’t walk down the aisle in McQueen! Read More

Preview the Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen Exhibit

kty | February 23, 2011 11:20 am The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York houses a fashion exhibition every spring, and this year the late British designer Alexander McQueen is its subject. The exhibition, entitled “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty,” will include over 100 pieces from McQueen’s archives, spanning from his post-graduate collection in 1992 to his last collection named Angels & Demons, which showed on the runway after his February 2010 death, the museum’s website states. It will also include some of his most recognizable pieces, including this look shown, which Lady Gaga wore in her “Bad Romance” music video. Read More

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Moss and More Pay a Final Tribute to Alexander McQueen

kty | September 20, 2010 12:02 pm London Fashion Week came to a solemn standstill on Monday morning as more than 1000 friends, family and colleagues paid tribute to the late designer Alexander McQueen during a memorial service at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Dressed in black, with hats and skyscraper heels as the dress code of choice, pals such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Stella McCartney gathered for the emotional hour-long service to remember the iconic British designer who tragically committed suicide seven months ago. Remembering his fashion legacy, the Reverend Canon Giles Fraser told the congregation: “We give thanks for his creative mind, his showmanship, and for his capacity to shock,” while also acknowledging his troubled past and reclusive nature, he said: “It was a life lived in the public gaze, but it was as vulnerable and retiring as it was glamorous.” The eulogies were led by Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, one of McQueen’s first employers. Read More