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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001, September 26, 2000

BoF’s editor at large revisits the beauty in the horror and the horror in the beauty that were the tentpoles of McQueen’s aesthetic.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001. FashionAnthology.com / INDIGITAL.tv.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001. FashionAnthology.com / INDIGITAL.tv.

For the past six months, I’ve been choosing a weekly favourite from my 30-plus years of going to fashion shows. It seemed like an appropriate way to remember — to

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