British fashion designer Alexander McQueen arrives at the Los Angeles Alexander McQueen Boutique launch party in May 2008. McQueen was found dead at his London home Thursday, his spokeswoman said. He was 40 years old. (Danny Moloshok / Associated Press)
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)
Rock star Elton John and McQueen arrive at the inauguration of the new LVMH Tower in New York in December 1999. (Doug Kanter / AFP/Getty Images)
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 Kate Moss. (Myung Jung Kim / Associated Press)
McQueen is greeted by model Naomi Campbell after a black-centric fashion show in London in 2004. (Nicolas Asfouri / AFP/Getty Images)
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 Kate Moss after photos of her apparently snorting cocaine in a London music studio were published. (Remy de la Mauviniere / Associated Press)
Alexander McQueen at the end of the fall-winter ready-to-wear collection show in Paris in March 2006. (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)
Alexander McQueen with Sarah Jessica Parker at the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, celebrating “Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion” in 2006. (Stuart Ramson / Associated Press)
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)
