Daphne Guinness | Alan Gelati | Harper's Bazaar Russia December 2011

Daphne Guinness ponders luxury style life among the ruins, lensed by Alan Gelati for Harper’s Bazaar Russia December 2011. Styled in discrete chic suits and dresses by Natalia Alaverdian, Daphne is a total aristocrat./Hair by Jeff Francis; makeup by Hung Vanngo.

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'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' | Woman Reconsidered

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Alexander McQueen Metropolitan Museum Bash

McQueen: Savage Beauty NOWNESS May 3, 2011

McQueen: Savage Beauty on Nowness.com.

A collaborative labor of love between late designer Lee Alexander McQueen, milliner Philip Treacy and jeweler Shaun Leane, the Bird’s Nest Headdress profiled in today’s film is among the pieces appearing in the Costume Institute of New York’s McQueen. “Birds were one of McQueen’s greatest inspirations,” says curator Andrew Bolton. “This hat is a poetic manifestation of his love of nature.”

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Habitually Chic May 3, 2011

Excellent new snaps with commentary about the exhibit and also the gala.

‘I’m a romantic schizophrenic.’ - Alexander McQueen

A Review and Reflections on ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’  Long Nguyen@Flaunt for Fashionista May 3, 2011

“I really care about a woman’s independence. I don’t like her to look so naive and so fragile. I like her to look stronger. If a man goes up to her, he has to have balls to go up to her. I don’ t like her to be taken advantage of,” Lee McQueen said to Charlie Rose in a 1997 interview when asked how he liked to dress women. In the fourteen years since this broadcast, few people in and outside of the fashion world would associate Mr. McQueen’s work with the empowerment of woman. Sometimes, words like misogyny and degradation were uttered when exiting one of his fashion shows–shows that featured a masked woman sitting a cage on stage for spring 2001, or the plastic and leather molds that restrained the body from McQueen’s fall 2007 show, or the metal mouthpiece from fall 2000.

McQueens for a night Daily Mail May 3, 2011

Naomi Campbell wore a couture creation by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen (left) and Crystal Renn wore a ruffled gown from the Alexander McQueen archive.The A-listers didn’t disappoint Monday night, wearing vintage McQueen and more to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala celebrating the opening of ‘Alexander McQueen’ Savage Beauty. Daily Mail delivers a quick, long page image overview of who wore what.

‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ | Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Sensuality News Living

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