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by Andrew Wilson

17 ‘Stars Pay Tribute to “Genius” Alexander McQueen at Memorial Service’, PA, Independent, 20 September 2010

  18 Numéro, December 2007

  19 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Haunting World’, Robin Givhan, Newsweek, 18 April 2011

  20 Interview with Janet Street-Porter, 16 April 2013

  21 Harper’s Bazaar, April 2007

  22 ‘Stars Pay Tribute’, PA, op. cit.

  23 ‘Memories of McQueen’, Hilary Alexander, op. cit.

  24 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  25 ‘The Savage and the Romantic’, Suzy Menkes, New York Times, 20 September 2010

  26 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  27 ‘Remembering a Renegade Designer’, Cathy Horyn, op. cit.

  28 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  29 ‘General Lee’, Cathy Horyn, T Magazine, New York Times, 11 September 2009

  30 Numéro, December 2007

  31 ‘General Lee’, Cathy Horyn, op. cit.

  32 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  33 ‘All Hail McQueen’, Lorna V, Time Out, 24 September–1 October 1997

  34 ‘Tears for Alexander the Great, Stars Turn out for McQueen’, Damien Fletcher, Daily Mirror, 21 September 2010

  35 ‘Catwalk Stars Celebrate the Brutal Candour of a Tormented Virtuoso’, Lisa Armstrong, The Times, 21 September 2010

  36 ‘McQueen: The Interview’, Alex Bilmes, GQ, May 2004

  37 Harper’s & Queen, April 2003

  38 ‘Killer McQueen’, Harriet Quick, British Vogue, October 2002

  39 ‘Dressed to Thrill’, Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 16 May 2011

  40 ‘An Enigma Remembered’, Economist, 12 November 2012

  41 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Last Collection Unveiled on Paris Catwalk’, Jess Cartner-Morley, Guardian, 9 March 2010

  42 Quoted in McQueen and I, More4, 25 February 2011

  43 ‘Lean, Mean McQueen’, Vassi Chamberlain, Tatler, February 2004

  44 Dazed & Confused, September 1998

  45 Guardian, 19 September 2005

  46 ‘Radical Fashion’, Tamsin Blanchard, Observer Magazine, 7 October 2001

  47 ‘Lean, Mean McQueen’, Vassi Chamberlain, op. cit.

  Chapter One

  1 Interview with Michael McQueen, 7 November 2013

  2 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  3 ‘A Brief History of Cane Hill, The Cult of Cane Hill’, Simon Cornwell, 2002, http://www.simoncornwell.com/urbex/projects/ch/index.htm

  4 CR5 Magazine, Simon Cornwell, February 2013, reprinted on http://www.simoncornwell.com/urbex/projects/ch/ps/tunnels1.htm

  5 Personality Questionnaire, Cane Hill Hospital, http://www.simoncornwell.com/urbex/projects/ch/doc1/personal1.htm

  6 Interview with Michael McQueen, 7 November 2013

  7 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

  8 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  9 Ibid.

  10 Record Your Own Family, Joyce B. McQueen, unpublished

  11 Interview with Jacqui McQueen, 8 April 2014

  12 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  13 ‘The Real McQueen’, Alix Sharkey, Guardian, 6 July 1996

  14 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  15 ‘Fashion’s Hard Case’, Richard Heller, Forbes magazine, 16 September 2002

  16 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

  17 Interview with Jacqui McQueen, 29 August 2013

  18 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  19 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  20 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  21 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  22 ‘“Meeting the Queen Was Like Falling in Love”’, Guardian, 20 April 2004

  23 McQueen: The History of a Clan, Joyce B. McQueen, 1992, unpublished manuscript, copyright the McQueen family

  24 Ibid.

  25 Ibid.

  26 Ibid.

  27 Ibid.

  28 Report of Dr Thomas Bond, quoted in The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Stewart Evans and Keith Skinner (Constable and Robinson, London, 2001), pp. 345–7

  29 McQueen: The History of a Clan

  30 Record Your Own Family, Joyce B. McQueen, unpublished, copyright McQueen family

  31 Ibid.

  32 Interview with Michael McQueen, 7 November 2013

  33 McQueen: The History of a Clan

  34 ‘Alexander McQueen, The Final Interview’, Godfrey Deeny, Australian Harper’s Bazaar, April 2010

  35 Record Your Own Family

  36 Ibid.

  37 Interview with Jacqui McQueen, 29 August 2013

  38 Interview with Michael McQueen, 7 November 2013

  39 ‘Lean, Mean McQueen’, Vassi Chamberlain, Tatler, February 2004

  40 McQueen: The History of a Clan

  41 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  42 Interview with Jacqui McQueen, 29 August 2013

  43 McQueen: The History of a Clan

  44 Will book, Joyce B. McQueen, unpublished, copyright the McQueen family

  45 ‘“Meeting the Queen Was Like Falling in Love”’, Guardian, 20 April 2004

  46 Deane family tree, Joyce B. Deane, unpublished, copyright of the McQueen family

  47 Record Your Own Family

  48 The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ron S. King (Lulu Enterprises, 2010), p. 125

  49 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  50 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, Observer, 15 December 1996

  51 ‘Alexander McQueen’, Chris Heath, The Face, September 2002

  52 Interview with Janet McQueen, 30 April 2014

  53 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  54 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  55 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  56 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  57 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  58 Interview with Janet McQueen, 16 January 2014

  59 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, Independent Fashion Magazine, Autumn/Winter 1999

  60 ‘McCabre McQueen’, Katherine Betts, American Vogue, October 1997

  61 ‘I Am the Resurrection’, Tony Marcus, i-D, September 1998

  62 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  63 Lee McQueen, School Report, December 1980, courtesy of the McQueen family

  64 Ibid.

  65 Ibid.

  66 Lee McQueen, School Report, March 1982, courtesy of the McQueen family

  67 Lee McQueen, School Reports, December 1980 and March 1982, courtesy of the McQueen family

  68 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  69 Interview with Jason Meakin, 11 February 2014

  70 ‘The Real McQueen’, Alix Sharkey, op. cit.

  71 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  72 Ibid.

  73 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  74 ‘Lean, Mean McQueen’, Vassi Chamberlain, op. cit.

  75 Joyce McQueen, McQueen family photo album

  76 Interview with Russell Atkins, 11 March 2014

  77 Interview with Jason Meakin, 11 February 2014

  78 ‘i-Q’, Alexander McQueen, i-D, February 1996

  79 Interview with Jason Meakin, 11 February 2014

  80 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  81 Interview with Jason Meakin, 11 February 2014

  82 Ibid.

  83 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  84 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  85 Interview with Peter Bowes, 11 December 2013

  86 Ibid.

  87 Andrew Bolton quoted in ‘Alexander McQueen: “He Sewed Anger into his Clothes”’, Sarah Mower, Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2011

  88 Interview with Janet McQueen, 16 January 2014

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sp; 89 ‘Dressed to Thrill’, Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 16 May 2011

  90 Interview with John Maybury, 15 September 2014

  91 ‘Lean, Mean McQueen’, Vassi Chamberlain, op. cit.

  92 Alexander McQueen on Rhona Cameron Show, quoted in McQueen and I, More4

  93 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  Chapter Two

  1 ‘A Man of Darkness and Dreams’, Ingrid Sischy, Vanity Fair, April 2010

  2 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, Independent Fashion Magazine, Autumn/Winter 1999

  3 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, Observer, 15 December 1996

  4 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

  5 McDowell’s Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion, Colin McDowell (Frederick Muller, first published 1984, revised edition 1987), p. 9

  6 Ibid., p. 15

  7 Interview with Gary James McQueen, 11 June 2013

  8 Interview with Paul McQueen, 17 September 2013

  9 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

  10 ‘The Real McQueen’, Alix Sharkey, Guardian, 6 July 1996

  11 Joyce McQueen, speaking in 1997, quoted in McQueen and I, More4

  12 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  13 ‘A Style is Born’, David Kamp, Vanity Fair, November 2011

  14 Interview with John Hitchcock, 17 April 2013

  15 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  16 Interview with John Hitchcock, 17 April 2013

  17 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  18 Interview with Derrick Tomlinson, 17 April 2013

  19 Interview with John Hitchcock, 17 April 2013

  20 Interview with Rosemarie Bolger, 24 May 2013

  21 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  22 Frank Skinner Show, quoted in McQueen and I, More4

  23 Interview with John Hitchcock, 17 April 2013

  24 Interview with Rosemarie Bolger, 24 May 2013

  25 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton on Life after Lee’, Shaun Phillips, The Times, 24 October 2012

  26 Interview with Jacqui McQueen, 29 August 2013

  27 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  28 Interview with John Hitchcock, 17 April 2013

  29 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  30 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, The Works, BBC, 1997

  31 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  32 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  33 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  34 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  35 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  36 ‘Emperor of Bare Bottoms’, Lynn Barber, op. cit.

  37 ‘Prototypes from the Perimeters’, Roger Tredre, Independent, 17 July 1993

  38 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  39 Interview with Koji Tatsuno, 14 September 2014

  40 Frocking Life, Searching for Elsa Schiaparelli, BillyBoy* (Foundation Tanagra)

  41 Tom Tredway in Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior, ed. Anne Massey and Penny Sparke (Ashgate, Farnham), p.98

  42 Shocking Life, Elsa Schiaparelli (J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1954), p. 17

  43 Email from BillyBoy* to AW, 13 October 2014

  44 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  45 BillyBoy* interview, Predrag Pajdic, The Pandorian, August 2010

  46 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  47 The Pandorian, August 2010

  48 Ibid.

  49 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  50 Lee McQueen, excerpt from My American Life: In One Era, Out the Other, An Autobiography, BillyBoy*, fierth.com

  51 Email from BillyBoy* to AW, 3 March 2014

  52 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  53 Interview with John McKitterick, 1 April 2014

  54 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  55 McDowell’s Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion, p. 295

  56 ‘An Italian Takes Paris’, Frank DeCaro, Newsday, 20 March 1989

  57 ‘With Striking Fashions, Gigli Reaches New Heights’, Bernadine Morris, New York Times, 17 September 1989

  58 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  59 Email from Lise Strathdee to AW, 6 May 2014, copyright Lise Strathdee

  60 ‘Alexander McQueen’, Katie Webb, Infotainment, Sky Magazine, March 1993

  61 Email from Lise Strathdee to AW, 6 May 2014

  62 Interview with John McKitterick, 1 April 2014

  63 ‘Romeo, Romeo: The Monk of Milan’, Michael Gross, New York magazine, 5 December 1988

  64 Interview with Carmen Artigas, 6 April 2014

  65 Email from Lise Strathdee to AW, 6 May 2014

  66 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  67 Interview with Carmen Artigas, 6 April 2014

  68 Ibid.

  69 ‘Romeo, Romeo’, Michael Gross, op. cit.

  70 ‘The Real McQueen’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  71 Email from Lise Strathdee to AW, 6 May 2014

  72 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, The Works, BBC, 1997

  Chapter Three

  1 ‘I Taught Them a Lesson’, James Sherwood, Independent, 19 February 2007

  2 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  3 ‘I Taught Them a Lesson’, James Sherwood, op. cit.

  4 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  5 ‘I Taught Them a Lesson’, James Sherwood, op. cit.

  6 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  7 Interview with Janet McQueen, 16 January 2014

  8 British Style Genius, BBC, October 2008

  9 Interview with Professor Louise Wilson, 14 May 2014

  10 ‘Central St Martins Fashion College Bids Farewell to Charing Cross Road’, Tamsin Blanchard, Daily Telegraph, 24 June 2011

  11 ‘No Rules Britannia!’, Hamish Bowles, American Vogue, May 2006

  12 Interview with Professor Louise Wilson, 14 May 2014

  13 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  14 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  15 Email from Rebecca Barton to AW, 3 February 2014

  16 Email from Rebecca Barton to AW, 2 February 2014

  17 Interview with Adele Clough, 28 May 2014

  18 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  19 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  20 Email from Réva Mivasagar to AW, 28 May 2014

  21 Interview with Professor Louise Wilson, 14 May 2014

  22 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  23 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  24 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  25 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  26 Email from Réva Mivasagar to AW, 28 May 2014; interview with Réva Miva - sagar, 31 January 2014

  27 Interview with Frank Franka, 14 June 2013

  28 Interview with Eric Rose, 18 July 2013

  29 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  30 Interview with Tania Wade, 21 July 2014

  31 ‘Inside London, The Groupie’, Marion Hume, American Vogue, January 1997

  32 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  33 Interview with Adele Clough, 28 May 2014

  34 ‘The Fashion Stars of Central St Martins’, Johnny Davis, Observer Magazine, 7 February 2010

  35 Interview with Professor Louise Wilson, 14 May 2014

  36 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  37 Interview with Adele Clough, 28 May 2014

  38 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  39 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  40 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  41 Interview
with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  42 Interview with Simon Costin, 15 April 2013

  43 Press Notes, St Martins MA Graduate Show 1992

  44 Interview with John McKitterick, 1 April 2014

  45 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  46 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, The Works, BBC, 1997

  47 Interview with Professor Louise Wilson, 14 May 2014

  48 ‘All Hail McQueen’, Lorna V, Time Out, 24 September–1 October 1997

  49 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  50 Interview with Lesley Goring, 29 May 2014

  51 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  52 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  53 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, The Works, BBC, 1997

  54 Interview with Rebecca Barton, 1 February 2014

  Chapter Four

  1 McQueen and I, More4

  2 ‘The Mad Muse of Waterloo’, Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker, 19 March 2001

  3 ‘A Blow to Accuracy’, Rachel Cooke, Observer Review, 3 October 2010

  4 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  5 ‘Hail McQueen’, Bridget Foley, W Magazine, June 2008

  6 ‘A Blow to Accuracy’, Rachel Cooke, op. cit.

  7 Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow, Detmar Blow with Tom Sykes (HarperCollins, London, 2010), p. 6

  8 Ibid., p. 4

  9 Ibid., p. 1

  10 ‘The Mad Muse of Waterloo’, Larissa MacFarquhar, op. cit.

  11 Blow by Blow, p. 42

  12 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  13 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  14 ‘The Real McQueen’, Alix Sharkey, Guardian, 6 July 1996

  15 Interview with John McKitterick, 1 April 2014

  16 ‘Kinky Gerlinky’, The Word, Channel 4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhqlcwxVYA

  17 Ibid.

  18 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  19 Christopher Hussey in Country Life, 7 and 14 September 1940, quoted in ‘A Family’s Idyll on the Hill’, Clive Aslet, Country Life, 1 February 2012

  20 Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion, Lauren Goldstein Crowe (Quartet Books, London, 2011), p. 111

  21 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  22 ‘A Family’s Idyll on the Hill’, Clive Aslet, op. cit.

  23 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  24 Blow by Blow, p. 158

  25 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  26 Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion, p. 130

  27 ‘Isabella Blow on Alexander McQueen’, Maggie Davis, Time Out, 13 September 2005

  28 Email from Réva Mivasagar to AW, 28 May 2014

 

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