Alexander McQueen

One foot on the catwalk

30 May 2015 9:00 am

St James Theatre hosts a new play about Alexander McQueen (real name Lee), whose star flashed briefly across the fashion…

‘Combs, Hair Highway’, 2014, by Studio Swine

Designer fatigue

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Different concepts of luxury may be inferred from a comparison of the wedding feast of Charles Bovary and Emma Rouault…

50 shades of beige

21 March 2015 9:00 am

My moment of the week was stumbling into the shocking, fantastical Cabinet of Curiosities in the Alexander McQueen show at…

The dramatic centrepiece to McQueen’s 2001 spring/summer collection set in an asylum

Shock and awe

14 March 2015 9:00 am

Alexander McQueen may have been a prat but at least he was an interesting one, says Shura Slater

John Galliano at Paris Fashion Week 2010

Bad boys of fashion

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Philip Hensher explores a dangerously intoxicating world, and discovers just how quickly famous designers can become an irrelevance