Alexander McQueen: fashion visionary - Tapa dura

Alexander McQueen: Fashion Visionary is a brilliant new book celebrating the work of the late designer. -- The Guardian

This retrospective exploring the designer's work is densely packed with images, illustrations, anecdotes and insights --Independent (Top 10 Style Book)

By concentrating on the professional rather than the personal Judith has done Mr McQueen's legacy a great service. --James Sherwood, Fashion Journalist

(The book)...provides fascinating insights ... The illustrations are lavish --Irish Times

With a foreword by his close friend, muse and avid collector of his work Daphne Guinness, this handsome tome offers insight into the Hackney-born designer's unseen world. ... If you buy one book on McQueen, let this be it. --Time Out Online

It provides fascinating insights into his early training as a tailor, with first-hand accounts from people who worked with him, and chronicles the background and inspiration behind each of his collections from the first ones in London right up to the final runway shows in Paris. --Irish Times Magazine

... celebrates Lee the radical thinker, provides history with a heart, and allows the stunning imagery room to fan out its feathers in full bleed spreads. --i-D Magazine (Sarah Raphael)

A well researched and illustrated tribute to Alexander McQueen --Sunday Times Style

It's already on our Christmas wish list --red

None of the many books on McQueen come close to this handsome new volume. --Time Out

A well researched and illustrated tribute to Alexander McQueen --Sunday Times Style

None of the many books on McQueen come close to this handsome new volume. --Time Out

A well researched and illustrated tribute to Alexander McQueen --Sunday Times Style

A retrospective of Lee's groundbreaking work and a salute to his artistry, the book showcases the wonderful world of McQueen, from his graduate collection at Central Saint Martins to his latest designs created just days before his untimely death. Celebrating his work and vision, Alexander McQueen: Fashion Visionary traces the designer's ascent to becoming one of the world's most respected couturiers - a story marked by celebrity friendships, unrestrained creativity, theatrical fashion shows and, ultimately, tragedy. The chronological organization allows the reader to understand McQueen's most seminal collections and the progression and underlying themes of his ideas. This book is dedicated to McQueen's work and talent, and exhibits not simply visually electrifying fashion images, but also reveals the deep reservoir of the designer's imagination.