Saturday, April 26, 2014

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Comes To London

The Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition is coming to London - and you can buy a ticket from 10am tomorrow morning. After countless spurious rumours that it would, and even a campaign to ensure it did, the V&A announced tonight that it will host the exhibition from March 14 to July 19 2015.

The collection, which covers the spectrum of McQueen´s career from his 1992 MA graduate show to his unfinished autumn/winter 2010 collection, was originally displayed in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 4 to August 7 2011. Its run time was extended by a week due to popular demand and it became the eighth most popular in the Met's 141-year history - behind Treasures of Tutankhamun (1978), Mona Lisa (1963), and Picasso (2010) - boasting a total of 661,509 visitors.

"I am thrilled to announce that the V&A will bring this wonderful exhibition to London to celebrate the extraordinary creative talent of one of the most innovative designers of recent times," Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said tonight." Lee Alexander McQueen was brought up in London, studied here and based his globally successful McQueen fashion brand here - by staging the exhibition at the V&A it feels like we are bringing his work home."

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
"Savage Beauty is a story telling of the most imaginative and talented designer of our time," added Jonathan Akeroyd, chief executive officer of Alexander McQueen. "We are incredibly proud as a house to be able to showcase Lee's visionary body of work in London as a celebration of his legacy and an inspiration to a future generation."

Curated by the V&A's senior curator of fashion Claire Wilcox, the London exhibition will be based on the original Met version, with  Andrew Bolton - who worked on the New York exhibition - acting as consultant curator. Supported by American Express and put on in partnership with Swarovski, it will cost £16 to visit, with concessions available and V&A members going free. Visit Vam.ac.uk/savagebeauty or call 020 7420 9736 to book.

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