Alexander McQueen's Savage Beauty Exhibition at the MET NYC

A friend of mine who shall remain nameless when to see the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Exhibition at the Met Museum in New York City and decided to brag all about it. I absolutely love Alexander McQueen's (RIP) work so needless to say I'm dying to see it in person. I plan to go see it in 3 weeks and I'm dragging her along with me.

It was extended by a week and closes on August 7th so if you are in the city it needs to be on your list of to do's.

Below are a few images from the exhibition  taken from the Met Museum's website.

The Romantic Mind
“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.” —Alexander McQueen

Romantic Gothic and Cabinet of Curiosities
“People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.”—Alexander McQueen

Romantic Nationalism
“The reason I’m patriotic about Scotland is because I think it’s been dealt a really hard hand. It’s marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.” —Alexander McQueen

Romantic Exoticism
“I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.”—Alexander McQueen

Romantic Primitivism
“I try to push the silhouette. To change the silhouette is to change the thinking of how we look. What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.”—Alexander McQueen

Romantic Naturalism
“I have always loved the mechanics of nature and to a greater or lesser extent my work is always informed by that.”—Alexander McQueen

Credit: All images by The Photograph Studio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art