PHOTOS: Alexander McQueen | 1969 - 2010
British fashion designer Alexander McQueen arrives at the
Lights illuminate rooms at the London home of fashion designer Alexander McQueen soon after it was confirmed that the 40-year-old designer had been found dead there. Police have said that his death was not being treated as suspicious. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
A man who identified himself as the boyfriend of Alexander McQueen reacts outside McQueen’s home in London. Emergency services were called to the 40-year-old designer’s home, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the death was not being treated as suspicious. (Carl Court / AFP/Getty Images)
The Alexander McQueen Store on Old Bond Street in London. (Neil Mockford / Getty Images)
A floral tribute lies on the pavement outside McQueen’s shop in London. (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)
A statement announcing the death of Alexander McQueen is put in the window of his boutique in London. (Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty Images)
A Brazilian TV journalist reports from outside the shop of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen in London. (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)
British fashion designer Alexander McQueen carries a falcon in Paris at the end of the Givenchy high fashion collection in 1997. (Pierre Verdy / AFP/Getty Images)
Alexander McQueen and collaborator Kathy England on the catwalk at the end of McQueen’s spring-summer 2000 ready-to-wear collection for Givenchy in Paris. (Thomas Coex / AFP/Getty Images)
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Alexander McQueen after Givenchy’s fall-winter haute couture collection in Paris in July 2000. (Pierre Verdy / AFP/Getty Images)
McQueen sits with his mother, Joyce, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for the Radical Fashion exhibition in 2001. (Willian Conran / Associated Press)
Alexander McQueen shows the Commander of the British Empire that he received from Queen Elizabeth II during investitures at Buckingham Palace in London in October 2003. (Matthew Fearn / AFP/Getty Images)
Alexander McQueen with model
McQueen is greeted by model
McQueen acknowledges applause at the end of the presentation of his spring-summer 2006 ready-to-wear collection in Paris in October 2005. His shirt refers to top model
Alexander McQueen at the end of the fall-winter ready-to-wear collection show in Paris in March 2006. (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)
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McQueen at the end of his fall-winter 2007-08 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris in March 2007. (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)
Alexander McQueen at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood in March 2008 before the opening of his L.A. store. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Alexander McQueen after his fall-winter 2009-10 ready-to-wear collection is shown in Paris. (Christophe Ena / Associated Press)
British designer Alexander McQueen at his spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris in February. (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)