We Lost a “Dark Angel”

I guess I can’t say it any better than Suzy Menkes, the equally individual fashion writer from The New York Times:

“An irreverent and upstart attitude was part of [McQueen’s] character, evidenced by the cheeky comments he embroidered inside a jacket made for Prince Charles while he was apprenticed to a tailor in Savile Row.
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Inspired by nature, from predatory birds to writhing snakes, the designer skillfully folded exotic prints or fanciful feathers into a fashion lexicon that included plaid and tweed from his family’s Scottish heritage.
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Mr. McQueen had a love/hate relationship with beauty. Much of his work, built on precise tailoring linked to a soaring, romantic softness, was elegant in a skewed way.
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For the designer was a 21st century romantic whose soaring imagination, dipped into the dark side, made a mark on fashion history.”