Alexander McQueen. Dietro le quinte.

A never-before-seen perspective on the fashion of Alexander McQueen. The legendary designer’s entire career, recounted through backstage at fashion shows: from the details of the clothes to the runway, from make-up to the models’ hairstyles

With his gothic fairy-tale dresses, stratospheric hairstyles and transgressive accessories, Alexander McQueen has struck the public’s imagination as only a few creatives before him have been able to do: with its 500,000 visitors, the exhibition “Alexander McQueen. Savage Beauty,” held in 2015 at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, was the most popular in the museum’s history.

From his beginnings in the 1990s to his last collection dated 2010, this volume traces the visionary designer’s entire career through spectacular photographs devoted to the crucial, and little-documented, moments leading up to fashion shows. Make-up artists armed with mascara and dark red lipsticks, tailors at work on a last-minute hemline, hairdressers grappling with ringlets and bangs, and McQueen himself, intent on adjusting a lapel directly on the bodies of the most successful supermodels.

The never-before-seen shots by Robert Fairer, an accomplished fashion photographer, perfectly capture the excited backstage atmosphere, glamour and adrenaline that made each show a masterpiece of emotion and creativity. A must-have reference book for all fashion and photography lovers.

Photographs

Robert Fairer – born in London, began his career as a fashion photographer in the mid-1990s. After working with magazines such as “Elle” and “Harper’s Bazaar,” he specialized in backstage photography working, for more than a decade, exclusively for “Vogue.” He also signed photo campaigns for several fashion houses, including Mulberry and Balmain.