
Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin
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Narrado por:
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Piers Hampton
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Andrew Wilson
When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer.
McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the youngest child of an East London taxi driver to scale the heights of fame, fortune and glamour. He designed clothes for the world's most beautiful women, including Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. In business he created a multimillion-pound luxury brand that became a favourite with both celebrities and royalty, most famously the Duchess of Cambridge, who wore a McQueen dress on her wedding day. But behind the confident facade and bad-boy image lay a sensitive soul who struggled to survive in the ruthless world of fashion.
As the pressures of work intensified, so McQueen became increasingly dependent on the drugs that contributed to his tragic end. Meanwhile, in his private life, his failure to find lasting love with a string of boyfriends only added to his despair. And then there were the dark secrets that haunted his sleep....
A modern-day fairy tale infused with the darkness of a Greek tragedy, Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin is soon to be adapted for film, directed by Andrew Haigh (45 Years). This book tells the sensational story of McQueen's rise from his hard East London upbringing to the hedonistic world of fashion. Those closest to the designer - his family, friends and lovers - have spoken for the first time about the man they knew, a fragmented and insecure individual, a lost boy who battled to gain entry into a world that ultimately destroyed him.
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Great! Interesting and well researched
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McQueen is made tangible in Wilson's masterpiece
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Rags to Riches
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I would recommend this book to a specific subset of Alexander McQueen fans. I would recommend this only to those fans who are not disturbed by graphic descriptions of sex and drug use. They say it is best not to meet one’s heroes. My admiration of the fashions remain after reading this, but it was hard to maintain my admiration of the designer himself. I hope that someone who was close to him will come forward and write about the other aspects of his life that were missed here.
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