“Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse,” opening April 24 at the L.A. County Museum of Art, will be the first West Coast exhibition about the influential late designer, putting his clothing in context of the paintings and decorative arts.
McQueen synthesized into his exquisite tailoring and dressmaking references to everything from film to cutting-edge technology .
LACMA’s exhibition will feature 70 complete McQueen looks from 1994 to 2010, including shoes, bags and some hats that belonged to the designer’s muse Isabella Blow, juxtaposed with 200 objects from the museum’s permanent collection.© Museum Associates/LACMA “We have a dress from his autumn 2003 ‘Scanners’ collection in a silver and black geometric pattern, which we realized is a Tibetan Kati Rimo silk brocade.
“His spring 2004 collection, performed as a choreographed show, referenced the film ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They,’ but we were also noticing how it pulled from Americana during the Depression era, so we have period photographs from that era. We were also able to draw parallels to artists from Weimar, Germany, referencing the idea of the dance to the death,” Hansen says.“One reason is he was at the forefront of new technology.
“Also, thematically, he was tackling a lot of issues we’re still tackling — understanding colonialism, misogyny, climate change, identity,” adds Esguerra. “He said in so many interviews, if you want to know about me, just look at my clothes. In every collection, he’s trying to make sense of the world.”Tags
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