On the tenth anniversary of McQueen’s death, we revisit this piece from the AnOther Magazine archive, in which the designer speaks on his relationship with art
"When I buy art, I don't give a shit who it's by, it's just whether it appeals to my imagination. This is a piece by an artist called Tim Lewis that I bought at an art fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington near where I live. It's a strobe light box and inside there are all these funny little wax men. There are loads of them in a circle. When the strobe light is on it looks like they're moving, like an army. It's fantastic.
"When I buy art, I don't give a shit who it's by, it's just whether it appeals to my imagination" — Alexander McQueen It's safe to say that all the necessary ingredients for a quintessential McQueen extravaganza are in place. The designer has made something of a career out of creating elaborate mise en scenes in place of conventional catwalk presentations by now. He is also not averse to encasing his subjects in boxes of his own design, investing them with a remote, other-worldly appeal. Autumn/winter 2000 featured a larger-than-life-size snowstorm in which models skated on ice.
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