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Alexander McQueen

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by Andrew Wilson


  11 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  12 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  13 Ibid.

  14 Email from Stephen Todd to AW, 8 June 2013

  15 ‘The Importance of Being English’, Stephen Todd, Blueprint, March 1997

  16 ‘Rock Steady’, John Harlow and Olga Craig, Sunday Times, 9 February 1997

  17 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, The Works, BBC, 1997

  18 ‘Drama McQueen’, Rob Tannenbaum, Details, June 1997

  19 Ibid.

  20 ‘England’s Glory’, Melanie Rickey, Independent, 28 February 1997

  21 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, BBC

  22 ‘McQueen’s Vision of Urban Chaos’, Grace Bradberry, The Times, 28 February 1997

  23 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, BBC

  24 Ibid.

  25 ‘Alexander: The Great is Back in Britain’, Mimi Spencer, Evening Standard, 28 February 1997

  26 ‘McQueen’s Vision of Urban Chaos’, Grace Bradberry, op. cit.

  27 ‘London Has More Buzz Than Swing’, Tamsin Blanchard, Independent, 5 March 1997

  28 ‘The Inspiring Truth About the Self-Styled Yob of Fashion’, Richard Pendlebury, Daily Mail, 30 January 1997

  29 Interview with Janet McQueen, 12 September 2014

  30 ‘Chanel and Givenchy Traditions’, Amy M. Spindler, New York Times, 14 March 1997

  31 ‘Do You Think It’s Me’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times, 23 March 1997

  32 ‘Do You Think It’s Me’, Colin McDowell, op. cit.

  33 ‘Oh, Malone!’, Carole Malone, Sunday Mirror, 16 March 1997

  34 ‘Conflicting Conviction’, Samantha Murray Greenway, Dazed & Confused, September 1994

  35 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  36 Love Looks Not with the Eyes, p. 16

  37 ‘Macabre McQueen’, Katherine Betts, American Vogue, October 1997

  38 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  39 Interview with Nicholas Townsend/Trixie, 24 May 2013

  40 Interview with Lee Copperwheat, 4 July 2014

  41 ‘London Swings! Again!’, David Kamp, op. cit.

  42 Interview with Simon Costin, 15 April 2013

  43 McQueen and I, More4

  44 Interview with Alice Smith, 7 May 2013

  45 ‘Macabre McQueen’, Katherine Betts, op. cit.

  46 ‘McQueen Chills Blood of the Fashion World’, John Harlow, Sunday Times, 6 July 1997

  47 ‘Macabre McQueen’, Katherine Betts, op. cit.

  48 ‘Cutting Up Rough’, BBC

  49 ‘Go On My Son’, Nick Compton, Sunday Times, 12 October 1997

  50 Interview with Simon Costin, 15 April 2013

  51 ‘The Kids Are All Right’, Chip Brown, New York magazine, 25 August 1997

  52 ‘Macabre McQueen’, Katherine Betts, op. cit.

  53 ‘Fur and Feathers Fly for McQueen Triumph’, Heath Brown, The Times, 8 July 1997

  54 ‘The Kids Are All Right’, Chip Brown, op. cit.

  55 ‘All Hail McQueen’, Lorna V, Time Out, 24 September–1 October 1997

  56 Interview with Jacqui McQueen, 29 August 2013

  57 Savage Beauty, Metropolitan Museum, p. 73

  58 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  59 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  60 Email from Murray Arthur, 25 July 2014

  61 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  62 Postcard from Lee McQueen to Murray Arthur, undated, courtesy of Murray Arthur

  63 Interview with Murray Arthur, 21 November 2013

  Chapter Nine

  1 ‘McQueen Takes London by Storm’, Melanie Rickey, Independent, 29 September 1997

  2 ‘Splash Hit’, Women’s Wear Daily, 30 September 1997

  3 ‘McQueen Reigns as the King’, Mimi Spencer, Evening Standard, 29 September 1997

  4 Love Looks Not with the Eyes, p. 15

  5 Interview with Simon Costin, 15 April 2013

  6 ‘Splash Hit’, Women’s Wear Daily, op. cit.

  7 ‘The King of Yob Couture’, Sunday Telegraph, 28 September 1997

  8 ‘It’s a Stitch-Up’, A. A. Gill, Sunday Times, 28 September 1997

  9 ‘Warrior Björk’, Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 1998

  10 ‘Lee McQueen by Björk’, GQ.com, 28 September 2010

  11 Alexander McQueen interviewed by Björk, Index Magazine, 2003

  12 ‘Cut Dead’, Jasper Gerard, The Times, 24 October 1997

  13 ‘Hard to See the Frills for the Froth’, Brenda Polan, Financial Times, 18 October 1997

  14 ‘Catwalk Culprits’, Sir Hardy Amies, The Spectator, 1 November 1997

  15 ‘Vain Glorious’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times, 26 October 1997

  16 ‘Shocks Fade as McQueen Goes Fishing for Applause’, Grace Bradberry, The Times, 19 January 1998

  17 ‘His Majesty McQueen is a King-Size Yawn’, Jane Moore, Sun, 5 March 1998

  18 Interview with Simon Costin, 15 April 2013

  19 Interview with Miguel Adrover, 13 August 2013

  20 Interview with Miguel Adrover, 4 August 2014

  21 ‘To Hell and Back’, Emma Moore, Sunday Times, 15 March 1998

  22 ‘Annabelle Neilson Remembers Alexander McQueen’, Harper’s Bazaar, April 2011

  23 ‘The Runway Bride’, Meenal Mistry, W, June 2006

  24 ‘Isabella Blow on Alexander McQueen’, Time Out, Maggie Davis, 13 September 2005

  25 Interview with John Maybury, 15 September 2014

  26 Interview with Daphne Guinness, 10 December 2013

  27 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  28 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  29 ‘Alexander McQueen on Joan’, The Face, April 1998

  30 ‘The Killer Queen’, The Face, April 1998

  31 ‘Fashion: The Revamp by “Yoof” Pays Off’, Brenda Polan, Financial Times, 14 March 1998

  32 ‘The Oscars: And the Best-Dressed Actress Award Goes to . . .’, Melanie Rickey, Independent, 25 March 1998

  33 ‘The Most Exclusive Fashion Magazine in the World’, Grace Bradberry, The Times, 8 April 1998

  34 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  35 ‘A Diet of Fashion Without Victims’, Alan Hamilton, The Times, 27 May 1998

  36 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, Observer Magazine, 4 March 2001

  37 Interview with John McKitterick, 1 April 2014

  38 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  39 ‘Fashion that Goes to the Head’, Susannah Frankel, Guardian, 20 July 1998

  40 ‘Fantasy League’, Colin McDowell, Sunday Times, 2 August 1998

  41 ‘Haute Couture: The Sublime to the Ridiculous’, Tamsin Blanchard, Independent, 22 July 1998

  42 ‘Inside Paris’, Kirsty Lang, Sunday Times, 26 July 1998

  43 ‘Mr Letterhead: McQueen Shows a Corporate Side’, Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune, 18 September 2001

  44 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  45 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  46 ‘Pandora’, Independent, 22 September 1998

  47 Interview with BillyBoy*, 8 August 2013

  48 Interview with Miguel Adrover, 13 August 2013

  49 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  50 ‘Sickest Fashion Show of All Time’, Catherine Westwood, Sun, 30 September 1998

  51 Email from Andrew Groves to AW, 27 July 2014

  52 ‘Alexander McQueen Meets Helen Mirren’, Dazed & Confused, September 1998

  53 Editor’s Letter, Jefferson Hack, Dazed & Confused, September 1998

  54 ‘Drama McQueen’, Rob Tannenbaum, Details, June 1997

  55 ‘Access-Able’, Alexander McQueen, Dazed & Confused, September 1998

  56 ‘“Barbie Girl” Steps out in Style’, Melanie Rickey, Independent, 28 September 1998

  57 ‘In London, Indulging in a Bit of Creativity’, Anne-Marie Schiro, New York Times, 29 S
eptember 1998

  58 ‘Oxygen’, Independent on Sunday, 29 November 1998

  59 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  60 ‘Designer Wins Legal Aid for Fashion Fight’, Mark Henderson, The Times, 5 August 1997

  61 Arts Diary, Kathleen Wyatt, The Times, 15 May 2000

  62 Email from Trevor Merrell to AW, 21 January 2014

  63 ‘College Drops Sofa Exhibit after McQueen Legal Threat’, Katie Nicholl, Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2000

  Chapter Ten

  1 Email from Richard Brett to AW, 2 August 2014

  2 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  3 Email from Richard Brett to AW, 2 August 2014

  4 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  5 Interview with Janet Street-Porter, 16 April 2013

  6 ‘McQueen’s Back, and He’s Dynamite’, Lisa Armstrong, The Times, 31 January 2000

  7 Interview with Andrew Groves, 24 April 2013

  8 ‘McQueen True to his Promise with Best Yet’, Lisa Armstrong, The Times, 24 February 1999

  9 ‘Fashion: Art of Poise’, Susannah Frankel, Independent, 9 June 1999

  10 Interview with Ferhan Azman, 17 April 2013

  11 ‘Shop of the New’, Marcus Field, Independent on Sunday, 5 December 1999

  12 Interview with Ferhan Azman, 17 April 2013

  13 Interview with Janet Street-Porter, 16 April 2013

  14 ‘Backstage with the McQueen of New York’, Simon Mills, Evening Standard, 20 September 1999

  15 ‘McQueen’s Audacity, Beene’s Impishness’, Cathy Horyn, New York Times, 18 September 1999

  16 ‘Hurricane McQueen Shakes up New York’, Mimi Spencer, Evening Standard, 17 September 1999

  17 ‘Cherie Dares to Blair for Designer Set’, Avril Groom, Daily Record, 21 September 1999

  18 ‘McQueen and Country’, Observer Magazine, 4 March 2001

  19 ‘McQueen Comes to the Aid of the Fashion Party’, Lisa Armstrong, The Times, 21 September 1999

  20 Interview with Richard Brett, 16 July 2013

  21 Interview with Jay Massacret, 22 October 2014

  22 Interview with Sebastian Pons, 20 August 2014

  23 Interview with Jay Massacret, 22 October 2014

  24 ‘McQueen’s Back, and He’s Dynamite’, Lisa Armstrong, op. cit.

  25 ‘McQueen Puts on the Style, with a Touch of Refinement and Romance’, Susannah Frankel, Independent, 17 January 2000

  26 ‘Who: Tracey Emin, Juergen Teller, What: Alexander McQueen Collection Autumn/Winter 2000, Where: Gainsborough Film Studios, London N1’, Nova magazine, June 2000

  27 ‘McQueen’s Inferno’, Mimi Spencer, Evening Standard, 16 February 2000

  28 ‘It’s Time to Give these Fashion Freaks the Bum’s Rush’, Joanna Pitman, The Times, 17 February 2000

  29 ‘Degradation Dressed Up as Joke’, Joan Smith, Independent on Sunday, February 2000

  30 ‘The Designer who Hates Women’, Brenda Polan, Daily Mail, 17 February 2000

  31 Interview with Janet McQueen, 16 January 2014

  32 Interview with Janet McQueen, 17 September 2013

  33 Interview with Detmar Blow, 26 June 2013

  34 ‘Lean, Mean McQueen’, Vassi Chamberlain, Tatler, February 2004

  35 ‘Precarious Beauty’, Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 September 2011

  36 ‘The Heiress’s Old Clothes’, Vanessa Friedman, Financial Times, 19 April 2008

  37 ‘Precarious Beauty’, Rebecca Mead, op. cit.

  38 ‘Daphne Guinness’s Glove Story’, Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2011

  39 ‘Precarious Beauty’, Rebecca Mead, op. cit.

  40 Ibid.

  41 Interview with Daphne Guinness, 10 December 2013

  42 ‘Water Swell Party’, Rick Fulton, Daily Record, 26 May 2000

  43 ‘Moment Noel Knew the Game Was Up’, James Scott, Daily Record, 7 September 2000

  44 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, Observer Magazine, 4 March 2001

  45 ‘Battle Deluxe’, Karl Taro Greenfield, Time, 8 May 2000

  46 ‘Fashion’s Hard Case’, Richard Heller, Forbes, 16 September 2002

  47 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, op. cit.

  48 Interview with Jay Massacret, 22 October 2014

  49 Interview with Miguel Adrover, 4 August 2014

  50 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Ex-partner Throws a Disturbing Light on the “Hangers-on” who Lionised him, but who Never Truly Knew him’, Laura Collins, Daily Mail, 14 February 2010

  51 Interview with Donald Urquhart, 30 October 2013

  52 Donald Urquhart, email to AW, 23 October 2013

  53 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Ex-partner’, Laura Collins, op. cit.

  54 ‘McQueen Branches Out’, Women’s Wear Daily, 27 April 2000

  55 ‘McQueen Meets Knight’, i-D, July 2000

  56 Interview with Sebastian Pons, 20 August 2014

  57 Interview with Miguel Adrover, 13 August 2013

  58 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Ex-partner’, Laura Collins, op. cit.

  59 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  60 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

  61 Interview with Janet Street-Porter, 16 April 2013

  62 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, op. cit.

  63 Email from Detmar Blow to AW, 17 August 2014

  64 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Ex-partner’, Laura Collins, op. cit.

  65 Donald Urquhart, email to AW, 23 October 2013

  66 Interview with Donald Urquhart, 30 October 2013

  67 ‘Kate Moss’, Subjective, SHOWstudio, http://showstudio.com/project/subjective/kate_moss_for_alexander_mcqueen_a_w_06

  68 ‘McQueen: The Diary of a Dress’, Susannah Frankel, Independent, 25 October 2000

  69 Michelle Olley, Diary Entry, 26 September 2000, http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/michelle-olley-voss-diary/

  70 Ibid.

  71 ‘McQueen Meets Knight’, i-D, July 2000

  72 ‘Fashion’s Hard Case’, Richard Heller, op. cit.

  73 Interview with Chris Bird, 16 September 2013

  74 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, op. cit.

  75 Interview with John Banks, 1 July 2014

  76 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, op. cit.

  77 ‘Boy Done Good’, Colin McDowell, Richard Woods, Simon Gage, Sunday Times, 10 December 2000

  78 Interview with John Banks, 1 July 2014

  79 ‘Bagged’, Independent, 5 December 2000

  Chapter Eleven

  1 ‘Alexander McQueen’s Ex-partner Throws a Disturbing Light on the “Hangers-on” who Lionised Him, but who Never Truly Knew Him’, Laura Collins, Daily Mail, 14 February 2010

  2 ‘“I Know it Looks Extreme to Other People. I Don’t Find it Extreme”’, Marcus Field, Art Review, September 2003

  3 Interview with Janet McQueen, 12 September 2014

  4 Interview with Janet Street-Porter, 16 April 2013

  5 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  6 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  7 ‘Killer McQueen’, Harriet Quick, Vogue, October 2002

  8 ‘Brit Style’, British Fashion Awards, BBC2, 21 February 2001

  9 ‘Designer in Blast at Cherie’, Simon Mowbray, Daily Mirror, 17 February 2001

  10 ‘The Paris Shuffle’, Hamish Bowles, American Vogue, April 2001

  11 ‘McQueen and Country’, Christa D’Souza, Observer, 4 March 2001

  12 ‘Dark Talent who Conjures Fun from the Sinister’, Lisa Armstrong, The Times, 22 February 2001

  13 ‘McQueen’s Magic Roundabout Brings Fantasy to London’s Fashionistas’, Susannah Frankel, Independent, 22 February 2001

  14 ‘Clever is Better than Beautiful’, Lisa Armstrong, The Times, 31 May 2004

  15 Interview with Janet Street-Porter, 16 April 2013

  16 ‘A Farewell From McQueen’, International Herald Tribune, 20 March 2001

  17 ‘“I Know
it Looks Extreme”’, Marcus Field, op. cit.

  18 Interview with Mira Chai Hyde, 16 May 2014

  19 Interview with Brooke Baker, 1 September 2014

  20 ‘Helmut Newton, Master of the Camera, Dies in Crash’, Oliver Poole, Daily Telegraph, 24 January 2004

  21 ‘Face to Face, Helmut Newton in Conversation’, The Barbican, 10 May 2001

  22 ‘Helmut Newton: A Perverse Romantic’, Lindsay Baker, Guardian, 5 May 2001

  23 Email from Ben Copperwheat to AW, 20 June 2014

  24 Interview with Ben Copperwheat, 2 July 2014

  25 Email from Ben Copperwheat to AW, 20 June 2014

  26 Interview with Donald Urquhart, 30 October 2013

  27 Email from Archie Reed to AW, 13 August 2014

  28 ‘Show Stoppers’, Susannah Frankel, Independent on Sunday, 29 September 2002

  29 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  30 ‘The Boy Is Back in Town’, Maggie Davis, ES Magazine, 4 January 2002

  31 ‘Mr Letterhead: McQueen Shows a Corporate Side’, Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune, 18 September 2001

  32 Interview with Kerry Youmans, 30 April 2014

  33 Last Word, BBC Radio 4, 12 February 2010

  34 ‘Radical Fashion’, Tamsin Blanchard, Observer, 7 October 2001

  35 ‘Fashion Guru McQueen Has Designs On’, Daily Express, 19 October 2001

  36 ‘The Boy Is Back in Town’, Maggie Davis, op. cit.

  37 ‘Alexander The Great’, Ariel Levy, New York magazine, 25 August 2002

  38 ‘Killer McQueen’, Harriet Quick, Vogue, October 2002

  39 Interview with John Maybury, 15 September 2014

  40 Interview with Norbert Schoerner, 18 August 2014

  41 ‘Paint It Black’, Susannah Frankel, Independent Magazine, 11 August 2001

  42 Interview with Norbert Schoerner, 18 August 2014

  43 ‘Paint It Black’, Susannah Frankel, op. cit.

  44 Interview with Kerry Youmans, 30 April 2014

  45 Interview with Eric Rose, 18 July 2013

  46 ‘The Boy Is Back in Town’, Maggie Davis, op. cit.

  47 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  48 Interview with Kerry Youmans, 30 April 2014

  49 Interview with Tony McQueen, 20 October 2013

  50 Interview with Archie Reed, 25 May 2013

  51 ‘McQueen Stands and Delivers’, Hilary Alexander, Daily Telegraph, 11 March 2002

  52 ‘Paris Style: Age of Elegance’, Jess Cartner-Morley, Guardian, 15 March 2002

  53 ‘Front Row v Front Line’, Anthony Loyd, The Times, 12 March 2002

 

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