Alexander McQueen 2008 “The Girl Who Lived in the Tree” Dress

Name: Alexander McQueen 2008 “The Girl Who Lived in the Tree” Dress
Brand: Alexander McQueen
Price: 4719.2 USD
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Alexander McQueen 2008 “The Girl Who Lived in the Tree” Dress Editor’s note: Iconic Alexander McQueen 2008 “The Girl Who Lived in the Tree” Silk Strapless Dress. Fall 2008 collection was one of McQueen’s strongest, inspired by a magical tree in his garden. “I’ve got a 600-year-old elm tree in my garden,” he said, “and I made up this story of a girl who lives in it and comes out of the darkness to meet a prince and become a queen.” Rare, collectible piece. Size: IT Size 42 – US 6 and IT Size 40 - 4 Made in Italy Finished with inner bodice Excellent condition

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Alexander McQueen

British fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, the original creative engine behind the Alexander McQueen label, was beloved for his expert tailoring and theatrical runway shows. After his suicide in 2010, fans left tributes to the man and his talents outside Alexander McQueen boutiques worldwide. Record-breaking crowds visited the posthumous retrospective of the designer’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Victoria and Albert in London.

The inspirations for vintage Alexander McQueen bags, dresses, jackets and other items came from many quarters — film, music, current events, history, his heritage and fashions of the past. The designer's runway presentations were not just displays of clothing but were personal expressions of the zeitgeist, often touching on our cultural anxieties and concerns. McQueen’s own thoughts and feelings about love, death, gender, genocide, colonialism, global warming and the extinction of species all appear in his pieces.

McQueen certainly shook up fashion; he was a born Rottweiler. His upbringing on a council estate in north London played a part, but his family was close and supportive, not dysfunctional. He was proud of his Scottish heritage: He was a defiant fashion warrior. His historical themes and shows — such as “Highland Rape,” 2002, which was inspired by England’s “rape of Scotland,” as McQueen called it — always invoked powerful reactions from his audience of fashion pros.

“What you see in the work is the person himself. And my heart is in my work,” McQueen told Harper’s Bazaar in 2007.

It is perhaps this heart, and the heart’s exposure, that drew the crowds and made McQueen's creations both popular and emotionally resonant. Because the work was personal and thus layered with feeling, the motifs — decorative embellishments and fabric choices — have meaning. In other words, in McQueen’s oeuvre, plaid is more than simply a pattern.

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