Friday, February 25, 2011

Alexander McQueen's exhibition @ the Metropolitan Museum

Alexander McQueen’s exhibition, entitled Savage Beauty, will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A preview of the show, which will run 4 May to 31 July 2011, was presented by Anna Wintour and Samantha Cameron at the Ritz as part of London fashion week. “His fashions were an outlet for his emotions, an expression of the deepest, often darkest, aspects of his imagination. He was a true romantic in the Byronic sense of the word – he channelled the sublime.” said Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Metroplitan’s Costume Institute. 
The US exhibition will feature more than 100 pieces of work. Here are some of my favorites: