Alexander McQueen: Working Process: Photographs by Nick

Alexander McQueen: Working Process: Photographs by Nick Waplington

In 2008 Alexander McQueen commissioned photographer Nick Waplington to document the creation of his Fall 2009 collection--all the way from inception to runway showing. Unfortunately, it was to be the last Fall/Winter collection that McQueen would stage before his untimely death. This show, which he titled The Horn of Plenty, found McQueen revisiting his 15-year archive of work and recycling it into a new collection. In effect, it was his personal survey of his work to date. The set was composed of broken mirrors and a giant trash heap made up of all the sets from his previous shows; critics have commented that this reflected McQueenâ€™s feelings towards the fashion system and how it pressures designers to be creative geniuses while relegating each collection to the garbage bin of history as soon as itâ€™s sold. Waplington was given unprecedented access to McQueen and his staff, which included the current Creative Director of the brand, Sarah Burton. Every step of the creative process is documented in fascinating detail and readers receive a rare insight into the inner workings of McQueenâ€™s creative process. Most notably, McQueen himself placed the bookâ€™s layout, picture by picture, on storyboards. The book was ready for publication when McQueen died, then was put on hold--until now. This substantial overview, with more than 120 photographs, is published just as McQueen edited it, commemorating the most personal of his collections. It includes an essay by Susannah Frankel, Fashion Editor at Grazia (U.K.).
Lee Alexander McQueen (1969â€“2010), CBE, was one of the most important fashion designers of the last two decades. He was the recipient of four British Designer of the Year awards, as well as the CFDAâ€™s International Designer of the Year award, 2003. In 2011, following his death, the Costume Institute in New York organized an enormously successful retrospective of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Artist and photographer Nick Waplington (born 1970) has published several monographs including Living Room and The Wedding (Aperture), Safety in Numbers (Booth Clibborn) and Truth of Consequence (Phaidon). He lives in London and New York.
Country USA
Brand Roli Books
Manufacturer Damiani
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9788862082952
Model 16885
ReleaseDate 2013-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9788862082952

Country	USA
Brand	Roli Books
Manufacturer	Damiani
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9788862082952
Model	16885
ReleaseDate	2013-10-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9788862082952

Alexander McQueen: Working Process: Photographs by Nick Waplington

You might also like...