Alexander McQueen Working Process - Photographs By Nick Waplington - Collector's Edition of 100 copies with Original Photograph - SIGNED

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN / NICK WAPLINGTON

ISBN 10: 8862082959 / ISBN 13: 9788862082952

Published by Damiani, 2013

About this Item

The book still in protective editor sheet. 304 pages, 200 illustrations. - Alexander McQueen Working Process - Photographs By Nick Waplington - Collector's Edition of 100 copies with Original Photograph - SIGNED Nick Waplington - 56/100 - "Artist and photographer Nick Waplington (born 1970) has published several monographs including Living Room and The Wedding, Safety in Numbers and Truth of Consequence. He lives in London and New York. - "It is not just a book about a season in a fashion house. It is also a personal record of Lee s imagination, his version of himself, and a tribute to the many important and lasting relationships he had with all those who worked alongside him". Excerpt from Nick Waplington text - Lee Alexander McQueen (1969 2010), CBE, was one of the most important fashion designers of the last two decades. He was the recipient of four British Designer of the Year awards, as well as the CFDA s International Designer of the Year award, 2003. In 2011, following his death, the Costume Institute in New York organized an enormously successful retrospective of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Red linen slipcase, red paper port folio with the photograph, Black M kind of slipcase, all as new comes in the original card board postbox. Rare. Size: 330 x 310 Mm.

Seller Inventory # 005611

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexander McQueen Working Process - Photographs By Nick Waplington - Collector's Edition of 100 copies with Original Photograph - SIGNED
• Publisher: Damiani
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8862082959
• ISBN 13: 9788862082952
• Binding: Hard Cover Cloth in Slipcase
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Alexander McQueen commissioned photographer Nick Waplington in 2008 to document the creation of his Fall 2009 collection from inception to its runway showing. This collection was the last one McQueen would ever show himself. The collection, which he entitled The Horn of Plenty, found McQueen revisiting his 15-year archive of work and recycling it into a new collection. It was in effect his personal survey. The set was composed of broken mirrors and a giant trash heap made up of all the sets from his previous shows. Critics have commented on this as a reflection of how McQueen was feeling towards the fashion system and how it forces designers to be creative geniuses while at the same time relegating each collection to a garbage bin of history as soon as its sold. Waplington was given unprecedented access to McQueen and his staff, which included the current Creative Director of the brand, Sarah Burton. Every step of the creative process is documented but most interestingly is that McQueen himself laid out the book on boards picture by picture. The book was ready for publication when McQueen died consequently putting the book on hold - until now. The book is published just as McQueen laid it out in a tribute to this most personal of collections. Nick Waplington is an artist who works with photography, painting and sculpture. His work is held in many major collections around the world including MOMA, New York and the Tate Gallery, London.

About the Author

Susannah Frankel is editor-in-chief of Another magazine. Previously fashion director of Grazia magazine, she was fashion editor of the Independent from 1999 to 2012. She is the author of Visionaries – Interviews With Fashion Designers and has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Dries Van Noten 1–100, Stephen Jones: Souvenirs, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty and The House of Viktor & Rolf.