Alexander McQueen

NEW YORK — Alexander McQueen is getting a tribute from the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Next spring, the museum will stage “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty,” a comprehensive show celebrating the designer’s work over nearly two decades, beginning with his graduate collection at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and ending with his final collection, which was unveiled weeks after the designer took his own life in February.

The exhibit, which will run on the museum’s second floor Cantor Galleries from May 4 to July 31, is expected to highlight how the designer challenged traditional notions of fashion, from construction to his creative narrative that often served as a commentary on culture, politics and identity.

The show will feature about 100 pieces. Bolton combed McQueen’s London archive as well as the Paris archives of Givenchy, which he designed in the late Nineties. The Costume Institute is also borrowing pieces from personal collections, including the late Isabella Blow’s wardrobe, which was snapped up in its entirety by Daphne Guinness earlier this year, including McQueen’s military coat from his Dante collection.

The exhibit will launch with the annual Costume Institute Benefit gala on May 2. François-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek will serve as the evening’s honorary chairs, and Colin Firth, Stella McCartney and Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour will be its co-chairs.