Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Costume Institute Gala Benefit at the Met in NY: a tribute to McQueen

Back again this year the appointment with the "Costume Institute Benefit Gala", an event that welcomes designers and fashion addicted star of the show, the Met (Metropolitan Museum) in New York staged a tribute dedicated to the great British designer Alexander McQueen. The major retrospective of the designer, called "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty", was curated by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton with the aim of this exhibition trace the 19-year career in the fashion of this designer who has really changed and left his mark on the world fashion.

There were the highlights, the symbol of fashion McQueen, by low-waisted pants to jackets through the kimono-inspired coats with origami. Andrew Bolton, interviewed by Vogue revealed: "McQueen was a true romantic in the sense of the term Byronic. Could express the sublime, that vortex of beauty and horror Squaderno teatralissimi especially during his shows, where the audience was caused by a welter of conflicting and powerful emotions-fear, surprise, disgust.

" The exhibition was opened to the public from May 4 and runs until July 31, but in the day Monday, May 2 was held an exclusive party with many stars.

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