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Alexander McQueen at the Met

Vogue's Anna Wintour is a driving force behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, which presents Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty -- a stunning tribute to the designer, and to fashion as heightened artistic expression.

By: Gerit Quealy

May 2, 2011

Alexander McQueen Exhibit opening at the Met Museum

Source: Title Gallery Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the start of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, the new exhibit by the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art stand two stunning sentries of fashion-as-art: The red dress a mosaic of red glass medical slides melding into feathers, the other entirely of razor clam shells — a harbinger that this is no ordinary fashion exhibition.

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