"THERE was a reason Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide last year at the age of 40, was considered one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation, admired by his peers for his astounding technical ability and idolized by students for his near-fearless risk taking. “People don’t want to see clothes,” he once said. “They want to see something that fuels the imagination.”
But while he was revered in fashion, and his runway shows were among the most closely watched, almost no one could have imagined that, as the subject of a museum exhibition, Mr. McQueen would prove to be almost as popular as Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh." Full article here.
The exhibition closes on August 7, but The Met will remain open until midnight on August 6 & 7 for the first time in its history.
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