Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen by Claire Wilcox is the authoritative scholarly study of the designer’s extraordinary career — the companion to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s landmark exhibition, which introduced McQueen’s work to audiences who had never seen a runway show and confirmed his position as one of the most significant fashion designers of the twentieth century. Wilcox, Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A, writes with both academic rigour and genuine feeling, examining the influences, techniques, and obsessions that shaped collections like Highland Rape, The Widows of Culloden, and Plato’s Atlantis. Published by the V&A with magnificent photography, this is the essential document of a career that redefined what fashion could mean and what it could say.