An Artistic Trend
At any one time in the world today, there are multiple galleries and museums around the world hosting large fashion exhibitions and displays. Be this as it may, there is still a clearly competitive love/hate relationship between both the art and fashion worlds, with neither quite willing to accept the links between the two. The connections seem obvious when viewing these exhibitions, which often display the most intricate, creative and least wearable designer clothes in existence.
This was never more obvious than at last year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s ‘Savage Beauty’ exhibition, which celebrated the late Alexander McQueen’s almost twenty-year career as a fashion designer. The exhibition attracted impressive numbers, achieving the accolades of the Institute’s biggest opening day, and coming within the top ten most visited exhibitions at the Museum. These numbers are a mere testament to Lee McQueen’s visionary genius, which was truly understood and translated in his work.