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1 / 56 Metropolitan Museum of Art Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty Audio Guide Press Script Narrator: Andrew Bolton Voices: Sara Metropolitan Museum of Art Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Audio Guide Press Script Narrator: Andrew Bolton Voices: Sarah Jessica Parker, Naomi Campbell, Sarah Burton, Aimee Mullins, Shalom Harlow, Louise Wilson, Sam Gainsbury, Annabelle Nielsen, Philip Treacy, Shaun Leane, Trino Verkade, Tiina Laaokonen, Mira Chai Hyde, John Gosling, Michelle Olley 400 Exhibition Introduction [LINK TO 450] 450 Level 2: McQueen Biography 401 Dress, VOSS, 2001 (page 75) 402 Introduction: The Romantic Mind 403 Coat, Jack the Ripper, 1992 (page 32) 404 Jacket, Nihilism, 1994 (page 38) [LINK TO 451] 451 Level 2: McQueen’s Early Years 405 Bumster Trouser, Highland Rape, 1995-6 (page 5) 406 Dress, Plato’s Atlantis, Spring/Summer 2010 (page 43) 407 Introduction: Romantic Gothic 408 Dress, Horn of Plenty, 2009-10 (page 72) 409 Corset, Dante, 1996-7 (page 82) 410 Angels/Demons Collection, 2010-11(pages 93-101) 411 Introduction: Cabinet of Curiosities 412 Dress, No. 13, 1999, White Cotton spray-painted dress (page 217) 413 Shaun Leane, Coiled Corset, The Overlook, 1999-2000 (page 200) 414 Shaun Leane, Face Disc, Irere, 2003 (pages 208-209) 415 Ensemble and Prosthetic Leg, No. 13, 1999 (pages 220-223) [LINK TO 452] 452 Level 2: Aimee Mullins Continued 416 Shaun Leane, Spine Corset, 1998, page 202 417 Philip Treacy, Headdress (bird), The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, 1 / 56 autumn/winter 2008-9 (pages 205-5) 418 Armadillo Boot, Plato’s Atlantis, Spring/Summer 2010 (pages 212-13) 419 Philip Treacy, Hat of turkey feathers painted and shaped to look like butterflies, La Dame Bleue, Spring/Summer 2008 (pages 213-23) [LINK TO 453] 453 Level 2: Philip Treacy on Isabella Blow 420 Introduction: Romantic Nationalism 421 Ensemble, Widows of Culloden, Autumn/Winter, 2006-7 (page 103) [LINK TO 454] 454 Level 2: Sarah Jessica Parker on her evening with McQueen 422 Ensemble, The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, Autumn/Winter, 2008-9 (pages 120-21) 423 Highland Rape Case, Autumn/Winter 1995/6 (pages 125-28) [LINK TO 455] 455 Level 2: John Gosling: Music 424 Kate Moss Hologram [LINK TO 456] 456 Annabelle Nielsen 425 It’s Only a Game, Spring/Summer 2005, ensembles (pages 136-37 and 139) [LINK TO 457] 457 Level 2: Naomi Campbell 426 Gallery 6: Romantic Exoticism 427 VOSS, Spring/Summer 2001, case featuring video of runway show (pages 143-44) [LINK TO 458] 458 Level 2: Michelle Olley reads excerpt from her diary 428 Introduction: Romantic Primitivism 429 Dress, yellow beads and black horsehair, Eshu, 2001 (page 152) [LINK TO 459] 459 Level 2: Sam Gainsbury 430 Oyster Dress, Irere, 2003 (page 166) 431 Dress, pheasant feathers, Widows of Culloden, 2006-7 (page 173) 432 Introduction: Romantic Naturalism 433 Plato’s Atlantis, 2010 (pages 185-195) [LINK TO 460] 460 Level 2: Conclusion 499 Teaser Long Version Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty©2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. 498 Teaser Short Version Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty©2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. 499 Teaser – Long Version ANDREW BOLTON: The exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty presents the extraordinary creations of one of the most compelling and provocative of recent fashion designers. The audio guide accompanying the exhibition features commentary from more than a dozen of McQueen’s close friends and collaborators. SARAH JESSICA PARKER: His construction and the attention to the detail of the construction and the real sort of mechanics of it are--he really is, and probably will continue to be, in a league of his own. ANDREW BOLTON: Sarah Jessica Parker wore a variation of a dress from McQueen’s Widows of Culloden collection to the opening of Anglomania, an exhibition celebrating British fashion here at the Met. McQueen was her date, and he wore a kilt of matching tartan. SJP: I said, “I would be so honored to wear your family tartan and walk up the steps of the Met with you.” So that's really where it began… And I remember him saying he wanted to, uh, uncover a lot of the neck. He wanted it to be a strapless. He wanted to show a little more. And we had a couple of fittings, I think… and that's when I started saving pins from fittings with him. ANDREW BOLTON: Incredible. SARAH JESSICA PARKER: Yeah. And I have them all... I'm so grateful to have that memory. I mean, you could not have put two more unlikely people in a car together really, truly. I mean, the two of us in a car silently traveling up Fifth Avenue just dead quiet, you know, my neck itching out of nerves, his face red and flushed. What I probably would have wanted to do in a car ride with him for 70 blocks is ask him questions, you know, talk about him. There are a lot of people that are very interested in themselves as subjects and conversation pieces. And he is not. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty©2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. There was such a tender, quiet, kind of like this wonderful bruise about him. That obviously was such a big part of his work—that someone who was thinking and feeling all the time, was creating things that make you think and feel. And there's such a lack of that in our time. There's such a lack of critical thinking and exploring ideas and referencing periods in culture and history and fashion and a sense of literature and, you know, how a country sits politically with another country. We like to get quick moments, information. And I think he was of a different time. I think he felt things deeply. I think he responded to things in a very colorful, demonstrative way. ANDREW BOLTON: What was it like being fitted by him? SARAH JESSICA PARKER: I always describe it as one of the really great, memorable experiences of a lifetime because I think by the time I met him in person, I had been exposed to a nice amount of fashion. So I had started, at that point, to understand what went into something being well made. And I couldn't believe the diligence. He had these gorgeous hands. And he just worked. And he was quiet and unthinkably shy, didn't look in your eyes much. Didn't want to, wasn't interested in engaging, it wasn't important for me to be his friend. You know, he was very concerned about his work. ANDREW BOLTON: Many people close to McQueen spoke to us especially for this program. SARAH BURTON: There will never be another Lee. Every day he was inspiring, every day he came in he gave you something new to think about or new to look at. TIINA LAAKONEN: You sort of felt very powerful and sharp and sophisticated in his clothes. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty©2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. SHAUN LEANE: The beautiful thing about the whole collaboration, working with McQueen, was that it helped me push the boundaries of how jewelry should be perceived and how it should be worn, and we're left with these beautiful iconic pieces. LOUISE WILSON: There are very few people that have a body of work that belongs to them and to nobody else. And in that sense, I can't think of another designer that even has touched on what Lee did. ANDREW BOLTON: The exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is on view at the Metropolitan Museum from May the 4th to July the 31st 2011. This has been an Antenna International production. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty©2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. 498 Teaser - Short Version ANDREW BOLTON: The exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty presents the extraordinary creations of one of the most compelling and provocative of recent fashion designers. PHILIP TREACY: I like designers that have an original point of view, and his point of view was probably the most original of all. SARAH JESSICA PARKER: His construction and the attention to the detail of the construction and the real sort of mechanics of it are--he really is, and probably will continue to be, in a league of his own. TIINA LAAKONEN: You sort of felt very powerful and sharp and sophisticated in his clothes. SARAH BURTON: There will never be another Lee. Every day he was inspiring, every day he came in he gave you something new to think about or new to look at. LOUISE WILSON: There are very few people that have a body of work that belongs to them and to nobody else. And in that sense, I can't think of another designer that even has touched on what Lee did. ANDREW BOLTON: The audio guide accompanying the exhibition features commentary from more than a dozen of McQueen’s close friends and collaborators. The exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is on view at the Metropolitan Museum from May the 4th to July the 31st 2011. This has been an Antenna International production. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty©2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stop 400 Introduction ANDREW BOLTON: I’m curator Andrew Bolton and it is my pleasure to welcome you to Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. The exhibition celebrates McQueen's extraordinary career, featuring work from his MA graduation in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010. Before we begin, please find a place to stand where others can pass by. Throughout his career, McQueen deeply engaged with various philosophical abstractions of Romanticism, especially the concept of the Sublime—a heightened emotional state that contrasts awe and wonder, fear and terror. He wanted visceral reactions-- both to his fashions and his singular runway shows.
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