Alexander McQueen
Lee Alexander McQueen
Born on 17 March 1969
British fashion designer
He is also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003
Camilla Belle in a 2009 dress by Alexander McQueen,
listed among "100 Best Dresses of the Decade
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McQueen's death was announced on the afternoon of 11 February 2010. In the morning, his housekeeper found him hanging at his home on Green Street, London W1
McQueen died days before London fashion week
though he was not scheduled to show
nine days after the death of his mother, Joyce, 75, from cancer
David LaChapelle, a friend of the designer, said that McQueen "was doing a lot of drugs and was very unhappy" at the time of his death
McQueen left a note saying, "Look after my dogs, sorry, I love you, Lee."
Right before Alexander McQueen's death, he had an eighty percent unfinished autumn/winter collection, 16 pieces, presented during Paris Fashion Week on March 8th 2010, to a select handful of fashion editors in a mirrored, gilded salon at the 18th-century Hôtel de Clermont-Tonnerre.
