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Tailored women's frock coat, presented at Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray - Rendez-Vous (2024) The runway show for Joan was staged on 25 February 1998 at the Gatliff Road Warehouse in London; it was McQueen's second time presenting there. [18] [50] It was the final collection for London Fashion Week that season. [37]
No. 13 Finale is a performance artwork by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, presented at the end of the Spring/Summer 1999 show for McQueen's eponymous fashion house.It consists of model Shalom Harlow wearing a white dress, standing on a rotating platform on the show's catwalk and being spray-painted by robots.
Isabella Blow was photographed for Dazed and Confused in McQueen's designs for Nihilism following the show. [39] The Daily Telegraph reported that McQueen had sold 200 pieces from Nihilism by February 1994, although Thomas clarified in her 2015 book Gods and Kings that this represented orders from retailers rather than consumer sales.
The show marked the first appearance of the skull motif that became a signature of the brand. The collection's runway show was staged on 21 February 2001 at the Gatliff Road Warehouse in London, as part of London Fashion Week. It was McQueen's final show in London; all his future collections were presented in Paris.
In 2015, Dazed magazine selected the silver eye makeup from The Overlook as one of McQueen's best catwalk makeup looks. [ 47 ] i-D magazine named it an iconic winter collection in 2017. [ 38 ] Shaun Leane published a retrospective of his career in 2020; discussing it with British Vogue , he selected an image of the model being screwed into the ...
The show is regarded as one of McQueen's best, and has attracted a large amount of academic analysis, particularly pertaining to the collection's imagery of human-animal hybridisation and interrogation of beauty standards. Several models who walked in the show have discussed their experiences as challenging but positive.
McQueen spoke of wanting to "show a more poetic side" of his work with the collection. [21] The collection was inspired by McQueen's Scottish ancestry, his love for the natural world, and Shakespeare's Scottish play Macbeth. [22] [23] [24] Its name comes from the women who were widowed following the Battle of Culloden (1746). [25]
The show also featured Kate Moss and Erin O'Connor. Olley also modelled for Nick Knight's Sister Honey series created for Dazed & Confused with British designer Peter Saville. It was the McQueen show that brought Olley to Nick Knight's attention, as he later said of it on his SHOWstudio.com blog: "The girl in the box was Michelle Olley.