Costume Institute Exhibit: Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty

This year the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute will be celebrating the work of late designer Alexander McQueen.  Images and details of the exhibit have been released yesterday at the Ritz hotel by Anna Wintour and Samantha Cameron.  Stella McCartney and Sarah Burton were also at the launch  , the exhibition will take place from May 4 to July 31, 2011, and will consist of  all of McQueen’s collections – from Nihilism to his posthumous Angels & Demons collection.

“McQueen’s work fits easily in the discourse of art. He can be considered no less than a great artist,” – Thomas P Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The images featured below were photographed by Sølve Sundsbø on live models and then digitally altered to look like mannequins.

Image credit Vogue/UK