Much has been said about the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. In 2009, a year before his suicide, he commissioned art photographer Nick Waplington to photograph his last fashion show, Horn of Plenty, which was dedicated to McQueen's mother. On the fifth anniversary of his death, the Tate Modern in London is opening the exhibition Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process in March 2015, where intimate photographs of the fashion genius at work will be exhibited.
Photographs Nick Waplington, which were first published in 2013 in a book, offer insight into the unique design process Alexander McQueen. Vogue's fashion editor, Miranda Almond, is fashion magazine "Horn of Plenty" marked as restoring your hope in fashion. It is the autumn collection from 2009 gathered motifs from the previous fifteen years of hard work – from silhouettes to the first pieces of jewelry and props. Models in platform shoes and wearing headgear made from umbrellas, parasols and baskets walked down the catwalk, strewn with broken mirrors and piles of trash containing burnt props from previous fashion shows.
Waplington was given the right to be had access to the otherwise reticent McQueen at work - there a fashion designer dressed models with chalk smeared on their faces and lips in the style of Marilyn Manson, he hung out with Anna Wintour, smilingly posed in his studio. Photos at the exhibition Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process they reveal what kind of team spirit Alexander McQueen was and how he was always ready to lend a hand in the preparation of his magazines. It was work that gave him energy and kept his demons far away.
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See intimate photos of Alexander McQueen behind the scenes of the glitz before the dark and tragic end of his career in the gallery.
