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[[File:Alexander McQueen by FashionWirePress.jpg|thumb|Alexander McQueen, 2009]]'''Alexander McQueen''' (Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969–2010) was a fashion designer. | [[File:Alexander McQueen by FashionWirePress.jpg|thumb|Alexander McQueen, 2009]]'''Alexander McQueen''' (Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969–2010) was a fashion designer. | ||
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| + | McQueen was born in [[Lewisham]]<ref>Wilson, page 13.</ref> and went to school in [[Stratford (London)]].<ref>Wilson, page 34.</ref> | ||
He was listed in the [[Pink List 2000]]. The citation said: | He was listed in the [[Pink List 2000]]. The citation said: | ||
:"If it were not for fellow Brits John Galliano and Stella McCartney, McQueen would be without peer in the rarefied world of haute couture. The London-born designer's shows in London and Paris are packed with ideas and conceived as pure theatre."<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/take-away-these-fifty-faces-and-britain-would-be-a-poorer-place-710891.html</ref> | :"If it were not for fellow Brits John Galliano and Stella McCartney, McQueen would be without peer in the rarefied world of haute couture. The London-born designer's shows in London and Paris are packed with ideas and conceived as pure theatre."<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/take-away-these-fifty-faces-and-britain-would-be-a-poorer-place-710891.html</ref> | ||
| + | ==Further Reading== | ||
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| + | *Andrew Wilson, ''Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin'' (london: Simon and Schuster, 2015) | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 10:14, 29 October 2016
Alexander McQueen (Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969–2010) was a fashion designer.
McQueen was born in Lewisham[1] and went to school in Stratford (London).[2]
He was listed in the Pink List 2000. The citation said:
- "If it were not for fellow Brits John Galliano and Stella McCartney, McQueen would be without peer in the rarefied world of haute couture. The London-born designer's shows in London and Paris are packed with ideas and conceived as pure theatre."[3]
Further Reading
- Andrew Wilson, Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin (london: Simon and Schuster, 2015)
References
- This article is a stub. You can help the UK LGBT History Project by expanding it.
- ↑ Wilson, page 13.
- ↑ Wilson, page 34.
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/take-away-these-fifty-faces-and-britain-would-be-a-poorer-place-710891.html
