Fashion Icon Alexander McQueen Found Dead
Uk fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead Thursday at his home of the apparent suicide. He was 40. McQueen was discovered at his luxury flat in Green Park, central London, where it is believed he hanged himself. He died just days after loosing his mother, Joyce. “It is tragic loss,” McQueen’s office said in a statement to UK’s Daily Mail. “We are not making a comment at this time out of respect for the McQueen family.” The notable designer had a big all the list celebrity clients including Lady Gaga, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Beyonce and Naomi Campbell.
McQueen’s contemporary line, McQ, was scheduled being shown at New York Fashion Week on Thursday afternoon. KCD, the PR company dealing with the show, says the demonstration is terminated.
Born Lee Alexander McQueen, the designer was the most youthful of six children and left school at 16 to work being a tailor beginner at Savile Row’s Anderson & Sheppard, whose clients included Prince Charles and Mikhail Gorbachev.
His death also comes just three years after his close friend Isabella Blow killed herself. Blow discovered McQueen during her tenure as fashion director of Tatler. According to friends, McQueen was so distraught by her death that he devoted his spring summer 2008 show at Paris Fashion Week to his late friend.
