Just as we’re starting to get over the fact that them Americans got to see the fashion exhibition to end all fashion exhibitions – *Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty – *before we did, out comes the announcement that it’s coming to London, back where it belongs at the V&A, from 14 March next year.
‘Pah, that’s ages away’, we hear you scoff, but reports suggest over 16,000 tickets have already been snapped up by eager McQueen beavers, and when it debuted at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011, it became their biggest exhibition ever, shifting MILLIONS of tickets (actually, it was 650,000, but that’s the equivilent of a blockbuster film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Ryan Gosling, in museum world).
Essentially, if you want to go, act fast, because this will definitely sell out, and hey, what’s £17.50 now for a day of sheer fashion joy come March?
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Kate Moss is coming! Well, in hologram form, as the infamous projection of the model from McQueen’s 2006 show, The Widows of Culloden.
A ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ in the V&A’s mind-blowing double-height gallery will display over 100 McQueen garments, from his Givenchy days to his final designs, so you certainly won’t feel short-changed.
Now that the show’s back in London, an emphasis will be placed on just how much McQueen’s home city seeped into his designs, so expect plenty of sharp Saville Row suits, just like the one he made for Prince Charles and allegedly sewed a dick into.
As an eager young fashion student, Lee McQueen spent hours in the V&A poring over ancient clothing designs, so his clothes, particularly his old-London inspired 1992 Jack The Ripper Stalks London graduate collection, will have extra resonance in this setting.
Kate Middleton’s dress will not be on display. Soz. The official line from the house of Alexander McQueen is that Savage Beauty is a celebration of Lee McQueen’s work, so since the dress was created by his successor Sarah Burton, it wouldn’t feel like an appropriate inclusion. Fair enough, tbh, even though we totally want to see it up close.
Buy tickets for Savage Beauty from the V&A’s website now.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.