Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Contributor Laura Marrinan gives us her personal take on her visit to the famed Alexander McQueen exhibit, straight from NYC. by Laura Marrinan After a 2 hour wait in an anxious line that snaked throughout the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, I entered Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty exhibit to a silently stunned crowd. The moments that followed were filled with McQueen’s most outrageous works and breathtaking displays of innovation and intuition. Including his well-known fashions that feature a rich combination of romanticism and gothic influence, the seven exhibit rooms also displayed natural and primordial approaches to fashion that typically take a backseat to his darker works. The air in each room was filled with music perfectly tailored to reciprocate the feelings behind the garments and, on occasion, clips of memorable moments from McQueen’s fashion shows. The room that stood out amongst the rest for me was the “Cabinet of Curiosities.’ It was filled with the bizarre shoes and headpieces that could have only come from the mind of someone as dexterous and eccentric as McQueen.
Twin Magazine September 2011 by FAB: Fashion & Business
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