Great news for anyone who's been desperately seeking tickets to see the V&A's Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition, especially if you're a night owl: the musuem will stay open around the clock for the last two weeks of the show.
The news comes as the museum announced it has received an “unprecedented demand” for tickets. And that's quite the understatement given that 345,000 people have visited the exhibition since it opened on March 14. It's the V&A’s most visited paid exhibition in the past decade and fashion fans have ventured from as far a field as El Salvador and Aghanistan just to catch a glimpse of the legendary designer's back catalogue.
12,000 more tickets will be released for showings spanning Friday, 24th July to Sunday, 26th July at 10 pm., and from Friday, 31st July to Sunday, 2nd August at 11 pm, when the exhibition will close its doors for the last time.
On weekends, the V&A will be opening up a bar with music playing until 10pm and refreshements until 6am. With the chance to see the Kate Moss hologram, Lee's famous paint splatter dress, and 18-yearsof breathtaking work (spanning 1992 to 2010), this will definitely beat any big night out you may already have in your diary.
Plans for the all-nighters are a more than fitting final hoorah for Lee McQueen's beloved exhibition, given that he once said that he dreamed of spending a whole night trapped inside the V&A.
Move fast if you want to get hold of night time tickets to the show though - if there's anything we've learnt from its run so far, people can't get enough. Book here.
Take a glimpse at the making of the show in the gallery below.
Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Exhibition
1 of 161. Detail -Bird's Nest Headdress, made with Swarovski Gemstones by Philip Treacy and Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen, Widows of Culloden AW2006
2 of 162. Conservation work on Swarovski Crystal Bell Jar Dress, Alexander McQueen, Natural Dis-tinction, Un-Natural Selection SS 2009
3 of 163. Detail of Jacket, Alexander McQueen, Scanners, AW 2003
4 of 164. Alien shoes, Alexander McQueen, Plato's Atlantis SS 2010
5 of 165. Detail, Moulded leather and horsehair dress, Alexander McQueen, It's Only a Game SS 2005
6 of 166. Detail - Work in Progress
7 of 167. Detail, Green and bronze cotton and lace dress, Alexander McQueen, Highland Rape, AW 1995
8 of 168. Alexander McQueen, Red chopines, Horn of Plenty, SS09 and Black Swarovski encrusted thigh high boots, American Express, 2004
9 of 169. V&A Textile Conservation Studio
10 of 1610. Line of dresses from Alexander McQueen, Plato's Atlantis SS 2010
11 of 1611. Conservation work
12 of 1612. Detail - Jacket, Alexander McQueen, It's a Jungle out there, AW 1997
13 of 1613. View of Spray painted dress, Alexander McQueen, No. 13, SS 1999
14 of 1614. Detail of Funnel Top, Alexander McQueen, Pantheon Ad Lucem, AW 2004
15 of 1615. Detail of Union Jack Dress, The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, AW 2008
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