Monday, April 5, 2010

Alexander McQueen's final bow. . .


Great but sad article in Sunday NYTimes.

At approximately 10:20 a.m. on Feb. 11, a London taxi stopped at the entrance to Green Street, a normally quiet block of drab red brick houses in Mayfair — drabber on this bone-chilling Thursday — and the passengers, a man and two women, hastily got out.

Not 30 minutes before, a housekeeper, in a state of hysteria, had telephoned the office of Alexander McQueen from his flat in Green Street to say that he had hanged himself. That was how the housekeeper had incomprehensibly come upon him — hanging by some kind of ligature in a closet in the spare bedroom.

read the rest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/fashion/04mcqueen.html

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