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Alexander McQueen

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by Andrew Wilson


  29 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  30 Email from Réva Mivasagar to AW, 28 May 2014

  31 Interview with Réva Mivasagar, 31 January 2014

  32 Ibid.

  33 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  34 Ibid.

  35 The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade (Arrow Books, London, 1990), p. 184

  36 ‘Bowie & McQueen’, Dazed & Confused, November 1996

  37 Interview with Chris Bird, 4 September 2013

  38 Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness, Caroline Evans (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2009), pp. 152–3

  39 Interviews with Chris Bird, 4 September, 16 September 2013

  40 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  41 Interview with Anna Harvey, 23 April 2014

  42 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

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

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

  45 ‘The Real McQueen’, Lucinda Alford, Observer, 21 March 1993

  46 ‘Fashion Stars Who Won’t Wear Britain’, Roger Tredre, Independent on Sunday, 28 February 1993

  47 Interview with Lee Copperwheat, 4 July 2014

  48 ‘Catwalk Capital’, Sarah Mower, Guardian, 30 August 2009

  49 ‘Shaping Up’, Nilgin Yusuf, Sunday Times, 7 March 1993

  50 ‘The Real McQueen’, Lucinda Alford, op. cit.

  51 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

  52 ‘Something to Show for Themselves’, Iain R. Webb, The Times, 8 March 1993

  53 Email from Simon Ungless to AW, 18 June 2014

  54 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  55 Interview with Tania Wade, 21 July 2014

  56 Interview with Michelle Wade, 6 November 2013

  Chapter Five

  1 ‘McQueen’s Theatre of Cruelty’, Marion Hume, Independent, 21 October 1993

  2 Draper’s Record, original review of show, reprinted in Draper’s Record, 20 February 2010

  3 ‘McQueen’s Theatre of Cruelty’, Marion Hume, op. cit.

  4 ‘Great British Fashion’, Edward Enninful, i-D, October 1993

  5 ‘Great British Fashion’, Avril Mair, i-D, October 1993

  6 Interviews with Fleet Bigwood, 23 June, 25 June 2014

  7 Interview with Marin Hopper, 7 August 2014

  8 Interview with Bobby Hillson, 11 December 2013

  9 ‘Cool Britannia: Fashion’s Fickle Eye is Fixed on London’, The Times, 26 September 1996

  10 Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy, Judith Watt (Harper Design, New York, 2013), pp. 63–4

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

  12 Interview with Seta Niland, 12 June 2013

  13 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

  14 ‘Neo-Riemannian Theory and the Analysis of Pop-Rock Music’, Guy Capuzzo, Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 177–99

  15 Interview with Seta Niland, 12 June 2013

  16 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  17 Interview with Michael McQueen, 7 November 2013

  18 Interview with Seta Niland, 12 June 2013

  19 ‘Madonna’s Magician’, Michael Gross, New York magazine, 12 October 1992

  20 Ibid.

  21 Interview with Plum Sykes, 30 August 2013

  22 ‘Conflicting Conviction’, Samantha Murray Greenway, Dazed & Confused, September 1994

  23 ‘New Kid on the Block’, Kathryn Samuel, Daily Telegraph, 24 February 1994

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

  25 ‘Punk: On the Runway’, SHOWstudio, Rebecca Lowthorpe, http://showstudio.com/project/punk_on_the_runway/rebecca_lowthorpe

  26 Interview with John Maybury, 15 September 2014

  27 ‘Alexander McQueen’, Mark C. O’Flaherty, The Pink Paper, April 1994

  28 ‘Talent Pool’, Adrian Clark, Fashion Weekly, 3 March 1994

  29 ‘McQueening It’, Mimi Spencer, Vogue, June 1994

  30 ‘Alexander McQueen’, Mark C. O’Flaherty, op. cit.

  31 Interview with Plum Sykes, 30 August 2013

  32 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  33 Interview with Eric Rose, 18 July 2013

  34 Interview with Dai Rees, 18 September 2013

  35 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  36 Interview with Eric Rose, 31 July 2013

  37 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  38 ‘Paulita Sedgwick: Rancher, Actress and Independent Film-maker’, Charles Darwent, Independent, 29 January 2010

  39 Interview with Frank Franka, 14 June 2013

  40 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  41 Interview with Frank Franka, 14 June 2013

  42 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  43 ‘Lee McQueen’ by Donald Urquhart, email to AW, 23 October 2013

  44 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  45 Interview with Miguel Adrover, 13 August 2013

  46 ‘Down the Runways’, Ingrid Sischy, New Yorker, 2 May 1994

  47 Ibid.

  48 ‘Conflicting Conviction’, Samantha Murray Greenway, op. cit.

  49 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  50 ‘Forever England’, Susannah Frankel, Independent, 8 September 2001

  51 ‘The Court of McQueen’, Rebecca Lowthorpe, Observer Life, 23 February 1997

  52 ‘England’s Glory’, Melanie Rickey, Independent, 28 February 1997

  53 ‘England Rules OK’, Nick Foulkes, Evening Standard, 26 September 1997

  54 ‘Forever England’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  55 ‘England Rules OK’, Nick Foulkes, op. cit.

  56 ‘Forever England’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  57 ‘England Rules OK’, Nick Foulkes, op. cit.

  58 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  59 ‘Conflicting Conviction’, Samantha Murray Greenway, op. cit.

  60 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  61 Email from Mr Pearl to AW, 12 October 2014

  62 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  63 ‘Lee McQueen’ by Donald Urquhart, email to AW, 23 October 2013

  64 Interview with Plum Sykes, 30 August 2013

  65 ‘Alexander McQueen 1969–2010’, Hamish Bowles, American Vogue, April 2010

  66 ‘Avant-Garde Designer of the Year, Alexander McQueen’, Hamish Bowles, American Vogue, December 1999

  67 ‘Alexander McQueen 1969–2010’, Hamish Bowles, op. cit.

  68 ‘In London, Designers Are All Grown-Up’, Amy M. Spindler, New York Times, 11 October 1994

  69 ‘Conflicting Conviction’, Samantha Murray Greenway, op. cit.

  70 Interview with Seta Niland, 12 June 2013

  Chapter Six

  1 ‘Life as a Look’, Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 March 1998

  2 Email from Nicola Bateman to AW, 24 July 2014

  3 Interview with A. M. Hanson, 2 July 2014

  4 Email from Stephen Brogan to AW, 3 July 2014

  5 ‘Life as a Look’, Hilton Als, op. cit.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ibid.

  8 Leigh Bowery, Diary, quoted in Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon, Sue Tilley (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997), p. 97

  9 Leigh Bowery, p. 100

  10 ‘Life as a Look’, Hilton Als, op. cit.

  11 ‘Lee McQueen’ by Donald Urquhart, email to AW, 23 October 2013

  12 ‘Drama McQueen’, Rob Tannenbaum, Details, June 1997

  13 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  14 Interview with Fiona Cartledge, 7 August 2013

  15 Email from A. M. Hanson to AW, 3 July 2014

  16 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2
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  17 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  18 Interview with Anna Harvey, 23 April 2014

  19 ‘Fashion: A Little Bit of What You Fancy’, Marion Hume and Tamsin Blanchard, Independent, 17 March 1995

  20 ‘Shock Treatment’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times Style, 17 March 1996

  21 ‘Boy Done Good’, Colin McDowell, Richard Woods, Simon Gage, Sunday Times, 10 December 2000

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

  23 Interview with John Boddy, 28 January 2014

  24 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  25 Email from Andrew Groves, 13 October 2014

  26 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013.

  27 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  28 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

  29 ‘McQueen of England’, Ashley Heath, The Face, November 1996

  30 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  31 Interview with John McKitterick, 1 April 2014

  32 Interview with Adele Clough, 28 May 2014

  33 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  34 Balancing Acts: Commerce Versus Creativity, ICA video, 1995

  35 Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, Gregor Muir (Aurum, London, 2009), p. 168

  36 ‘Where Have all the Cool People Gone?’, Jess Cartner-Morley, Guardian, 21 November 2003

  37 Lucky Kunst, p. 155

  38 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  39 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  40 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  41 Interview with Sebastian Pons, 20 August 2014

  42 ‘Wings of Desire’, Susannah Frankel, Guardian Weekend, 25 January 1997

  43 ‘Alexander the Great’, Judy Rumbold, Vogue supplement, August 1996

  44 Interview with Suzy Menkes, 13 June 2014

  45 ‘Simply Cool for Summer’, Iain R. Webb, The Times, 25 October 1995

  46 ‘Divided We Rule’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times, 29 October 1995

  47 ‘Alexander the Great’, Judy Rumbold, op. cit.

  48 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  49 Email from Liz Farrelly to AW, 25 November 2013

  50 Email from Linda Björg Árnadóttir to AW, 4 July 2014

  51 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

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

  53 ‘Fabric of Society’, Paula Reed, Sunday Times Style, 3 March 1996

  54 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

  55 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

  56 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  57 ‘Out of the Crypt and on to the Catwalk’, Tamsin Blanchard, Independent, 5 March 1996

  58 Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 22 September 1996

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

  60 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  61 ‘In London, Blueblood Meets Hot Blood’, Amy M. Spindler, New York Times, 5 March 1996

  62 ‘The Macabre and the Poetic’, Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune, 5 March 1996

  63 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  64 ‘Shock Treatment’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times Style, 17 March 1996

  65 ‘Alexander the Great’, Judy Rumbold, op. cit.

  66 ‘Shock Treatment’, Colin McDowell, op. cit.

  67 ‘Dullsville’, Guy Trebay, New York magazine, 15 April 1996

  68 Ibid.

  69 ‘The McQueen of England’, Women’s Wear Daily, 28 March 1996

  70 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  71 ‘Alexander McQueen Meets Helen Mirren’, Dazed & Confused, September 1998

  72 Interview with Marin Hopper, 7 August 2014

  73 ‘The McQueen of England’, op. cit.

  Chapter Seven

  1 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  2 Postcard from Lee McQueen to Murray Arthur, 1996, courtesy of Murray Arthur

  3 ‘Drama McQueen’, Rob Tannenbaum, Details, June 1997

  4 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  5 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  6 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

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

  8 Ibid.

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

  10 Blow by Blow, Detmar Blow, p. 157

  11 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

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

  13 Lee McQueen Twitter account, 1 February, reproduced in ‘Alexander McQueen’s Twitter Revealed Troubled Mind’, Nick Collins, Daily Telegraph, 12 February 2010

  14 Interview with Dai Rees, 18 September 2013, email from Dai Rees to AW, 7 July 2014

  15 Interview with Simon Costin, 15 April 2013

  16 Interview with Sarah Burton, Susannah Frankel, AnOther magazine, Spring/Summer 2012

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

  18 ‘Betraying Convention’, Liz Farrelly, Design Week, 3 October 1996

  19 Nick Knight, Oral History of British Photography, British Library

  20 ‘McQueen of England’, Ashley Heath, The Face, November 1996

  21 Ibid.

  22 Nick Knight, Oral History of British Photography, British Library

  23 ‘London Rules Again’, Iain R. Webb, The Times, 2 October 1996

  24 ‘All Hail McQueen’, Lorna V, op. cit.

  25 ‘Charity Attack on Designer’, Independent, 2 October 1996

  26 ‘London Rules Again’, Iain R. Webb, op. cit.

  27 ‘British Thrills and Frills and Stateside Buzz – It’s Called Symbiosis’, Tamsin Blanchard, Independent, 1 October 1996

  28 ‘Will This Be Dior’s New Look? – She Denies It of Course’, Independent, 14 August 1996

  29 ‘French Fashion Has Designs on Britons’, Grace Bradberry, The Times, 9 October 1996

  30 ‘Will This Be Dior’s New Look?’, Independent, op. cit.

  31 McDowell’s Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion, p. 148

  32 ‘If Galliano Goes to Dior, Will Alexander McQueen Go to Givenchy?’, Constance C. R. White, New York Times, 24 September 1996

  33 Savage Beauty, Metropolitan Museum, p. 226

  34 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  35 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  36 Interview with John Banks, 1 July 2014

  37 ‘I’m Not Having Bumsters on George V’, Hilary Alexander, Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1996

  38 Blow by Blow, p. 173

  39 ‘Blowing In’, The Times, 1 November 1996

  40 Email from John Banks to AW, 4 July 2014

  41 Blow by Blow, p. 173

  42 McQueen and I, More4

  43 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  44 Isabella Blow interview, Lydia Slater, Daily Telegraph, quoted in Blow by Blow, p. 175

  45 Interview with John Maybury, 15 September 2014

  46 Interview with Daphne Guinness, 10 December 2013

  47 ‘Bull in a Fashion Shop’, Susannah Frankel, Guardian, 15 October 1996

  48 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  49 ‘From Rebel To Royalty as McQueen Is Crowned King of Fashion’, AngelButtolph, Evening Standard, 23 October 1996

  50 ‘Low Cut – Diary’, P.H.S., The Times, 24 October 1996

  51 ‘Cutting at Central St Martins’, Independent on Sunday, Ideal Home, 3 November 1996, reproduced in Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy, p. 109

  52 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, Observer Magazine, 4 April 2001, originally published in Talk Magazine, March 2001

  53 ‘Al
exander McQueen’s Final Bow’, Cathy Horyn, New York Times, 3 April 2010

  54 ‘The Court of McQueen’, Rebecca Lowthorpe, Observer Life, 23 February 1997

  55 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  56 McQueen and I, More4

  57 ‘Ideal Homes, Alexander McQueen’, Rosanna Greenstreet, Independent on Sunday, 3 November 1996

  58 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  59 McQueen and I, More4

  60 ‘England Rules OK’, Nick Foulkes, Evening Standard, 26 September 1997

  61 Savage Beauty, Metropolitan Museum, p. 226

  62 Interview with Simon Ungless, 24 January 2014

  63 ‘I’m Not Having Bumsters on George V’, Hilary Alexander, op. cit.

  64 McQueen and I, More4

  65 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  66 ‘The Court of McQueen’, Rebecca Lowthorpe, Observer Life, 23 February 1997

  67 Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with Lee Alexander McQueen, Anne Deniau (Abrams, New York), p. 13

  68 ‘Backstage McQueen: Q and A with Anne Deniau’, Eric Wilson, New York Times, 7 September 2012

  69 Love Looks Not with the Eyes, p. 15

  70 Ibid.

  71 McQueen and I, More4

  72 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  73 Blow by Blow, p. 175

  74 McQueen and I, More4

  75 ‘Postcard from London: Gear’, Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 March 1997

  76 Liz Tilberis, The Clothes Show, BBC1, 26 January 1997

  77 ‘Paris Match’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times, 26 January 1997

  78 Diary, Kate Muir, The Times, 8 March 1997

  79 ‘Postcard from London: Gear’, Hilton Als, op. cit.

  80 ‘Wings of Desire’, Susannah Frankel, Guardian Weekend, 25 January 1997

  81 ‘Postcard from London: Gear’, Hilton Als, op. cit.

  Chapter Eight

  1 ‘London Swings! Again!’, David Kamp, Vanity Fair, March 1997

  2 ‘London Reigns’, Stryker McGuire, Newsweek, 4 November 1996

  3 ‘This Time I’ve Come to Bury Cool Britannia’, Stryker McGuire, Observer Review, 29 March 2009

  4 Email from Detmar Blow to AW, 17 July 2014

  5 Blow by Blow, pp. 25–6

  6 Email from Detmar Blow to AW, 17 July 2014

  7 ‘Alexander McQueen and Issie Blow, You Will Be Missed’, David Kamp, Vanity Fair blog, 11 February 2010

  8 ‘London Swings! Again!’, David Kamp, op. cit.

  9 ‘Alexander McQueen and Issie Blow’, David Kamp, op. cit.

  10 ‘London Swings! Again!’, David Kamp, op. cit.

 

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