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Lee Alexander Mcqueen: One of The Most Influential People in The 21 Century
Lee Alexander Mcqueen: One of The Most Influential People in The 21 Century
Lee Alexander Mcqueen: One of The Most Influential People in The 21 Century
21st Century
By: Dea 12G
He once declared, “Give me time, and I’ll give you a revolution.” Lee
Alexander McQueen—known as Alexander McQueen—born on March 17 th
1969, and raised in the East End, the youngest son of a London cabdriver
—made his breakthrough in 1995 with his collection, commemorating
about the English slaughter to his Scottish ancestors. The British designer,
almost instantly, was described by Vogue as a “beer-bellied, snaggle-
toothed, foul-mouthed”—someone who seemed to be conceited and
delinquent. But, he would rocket to success with a theatrically dark—in
the most beautiful kind of way—runaway show after another. Hamish
Bowles of Vogue stated that, “the fashion world would never be the same
again.” And that McQueen’s low-string silhouette and savage imagination
would come to define the decade.
However, making people surprised at his designs and stages were not the
only two things he did exceptionally good at. In 1998, Alexander McQueen
caused a huge controversy for bringing an amputee, Aimee Mullins, to
strut the catwalk with a hand-carved leg prosthetics. McQueen turned the
whole fashion industry upside down by just one show—he was never a big
fan of following the industrial norms of the fashion world, anyway—by
putting a disabled person in his show, and made people stand from their
chairs.