Dress, No. 13, spring/summer 1999, Alexander McQueen
What spoke to me most was McQueen’s unrelenting and passionate provocation. He loved the dramatic, the ecstatic experience of beauty. His work may be trim—an echo of his tailoring beginnings—but always, they were darkly erotic.
McQueen’s romanticism was also paired with a keen awareness of the cinematic. This piece was not just a dress, but a performance where two industrial robots spray-painted the model.
