WIDOWS OF CULLODEN,
FALL 2006
“The collection was about the 1745 massacre of the Scottish Jacobites by the English, which Lee felt so passionately about because of his Scottish family heritage, which his mother had researched. The women were the widows of the slaughtered army. This dress was actually based on my wedding dress—I got married two years earlier. We had to figure out how to make lace work in the round with those ruffles because Lee hated gathering. So we cut out all of the flowers from the lace and reappliquéd it on tulle to make our own fabric. This is the collection most people remember as the one with Kate Moss in a hologram. Oh, my God, it was so beautiful. He loved that show.”
On model Karen Elson: silk-lace ruffled dress with lace veil and Perspex antlers. Philip Treacy headpieces
Vogue Magazine payed tribute to the late Alexander McQueen in the May 2011 edition photographed by Steven Meisel and features models Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Coco Rocha, Stella Tennant and Karlie Kloss. “Savage Beauty” will be opening at the MET on May 4 2011.
