Five years ago, Kate Middleton married Prince William in a stunning gown by Alexander McQueen creative director Sarah Burton, which almost managed to sell a generation of brides on sleeves. But now another designer has filed suit, alleging that dress was based on her uncredited work.
Sarah Burton’s latest fantastical collection for Alexander McQueen invoked, at least in spirit, the legends in Game of Thrones, its gestures towards medieval mythologies gleaming through in silvery unicorn appliqués on delicate lace and romantic, papillon-festooned boudoir jackets. Despite the lilting nature of the…
Two African-American employees at an Alexander McQueen store in New York have filed suit against the company and its owner Kering for racial discrimination, reports Fashionista. The suit states the company “engaged in systematic racism against Kering’s African-American employees,” as well as blocking African-American…
The Victoria and Albert Museum will be closing curtains on its Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibit, which had come to London after its previous run at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As a final celebration, photographer Nick Knight and his team created a beautifully haunting film compiled of previously…
Just months before his death in February 2010, Alexander McQueen debuted the now-legendary Armadillo Boots in an astonishing Spring 2010 ready-to-wear runway show titled Plato’s Atlantis.
Last night London's Victoria & Albert Museum opened "Savage Beauty," a tribute to the work of renegade fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and the British fashion celebrities were out in droves. Kate Moss, Princess Beatrice, Naomi Campbell, Poppy Delavingne, each in lovely elaborate McQueen ensembles, paying homage to…
A former intern is suing the fashion house founded by the late designer Alexander McQueen over wages she says she owed for four months of work.
The Queen of England isn’t much into knees, especially those belonging to Kate Middleton. Her highness recently sent down a “dictum” on how the Duchess of Cambridge should dress for her upcoming tour of Australia and it included a lot of longer skirts and old timey jewels.
McQueen's Spring 2013 collection shown in Paris on Tuesday was all about Queen Bees and Wannabes. Apparently designer Sarah Burton had apiology on the mind: Large hats resembled bee-keeping masks; trousers were printed with a honeycomb pattern, dresses were corseted and wasp-waisted; tiny golden bees flitted about on…
George Clooney, Stacy Keibler, Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston shared a private jet—the Glitter Person version of splitting a cab—in Switzerland. Were this an NYU freshman playwright's hastily-penned one-act, they would experience some turbulence and blurt out their long-held secrets, resentments and desires for…
Sarah Burton showed a fall collection for Alexander McQueen that mixed light and dark, futurism and romanticism, and played with ideas of volume and space. She did it in the same venue that her predecessor chose for his infamous They Shoot Horses, Don't They?-inspired dance marathon show.
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Rebecca Mead's profile of Daphne Guinness from this week's New Yorker aims to explain the nature of the heiress/fashion star's appeal. And just what it is that she does all day.
The "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed on Sunday having drawn over 650,000 visitors, and in the process, becoming one of the ten most popular shows in the museum's 141-year history. Measured in attendance, McQueen is now up there with Tutankhamun, the Mona Lisa, and…
An old boyfriend of Alexander McQueen says that Amy Winehouse and the designer had a feud. McQueen offended the singer when they met — the boyfriend doesn't say how, but it was apparently serious enough that when McQueen sent Winehouse a £15,000 dress by way of apology, she burned it. On her barbecue. Winehouse also…
For Christian Louboutin's latest lookbook, photographer Peter Lippmann used models to essentially recreate iconic works from art history: Whistler's Mother, Francisco de Zurbarán's St. Dorothy, and here, Jean-Marc Nattier's 1738 Portrait of the Marquise D'Antin. And added, you know, really expensive shoes. It's an old…
Yvonne Yorke, the Huffington Post's "award-winning journalist and Royal Contributor" is still steamed that her biggest "scoop" about Kate and William's nuptials — Yorke claimed she knew "undoubtedly" that a designer named Sophie Cranston was making the wedding dress — was just flat-out wrong.
"I want to empower women," said the late fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen. "I want people to be afraid of the women I dress." The first major museum show dedicated solely to McQueen, "Savage Beauty," has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As an introduction to his work and his mind, it…
Details — including the first review — of tonight's Met Ball are trickling out. We saw Anna Wintour, surrounded by curators and assistants, striding through the Met yesterday afternoon, and minutes later spotted Suzy Menkes lingering near coat check — presumably just after reporting this piece. The late designer Lee…
For the evening festivities, Kate — pardon me, the Duchess of Cambridge — changed into another Sarah Burton/Alexander McQueen dress. Like the gown from her ceremony, it had a snug waist but this evening getup featured diamante detailing at the waist and was paired with an angora bolero.
