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Sminky-Pinky!
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Meeks.
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- Do you want to fix my hair?
- Yes.
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I was thinking about a line down there and two,
which comes up from behind.
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- As one...
- ...a V.
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Haute couture.
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The original documentary
about Alexander McQueen.
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"The McQueen Tapes."
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I did not care what else
or myself thought about me-
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- so I searched into the dark and pulled
the horrors from the depths of my soul-
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and on the catwalk.
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Many claim that they
discovered Alexander McQueen-
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- but you do not discover talent. The
is there and can be helped on the way.
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Nobody discovered Alexander McQueen.
He discovered himself.
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Lee had a strange CV.
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I was not very good at school.
I always designed clothes.
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In natural sciences and in biology.
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But I liked imagery.
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After school he did not know,
what he wanted. He searched for a job.
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My husband is strict with,
that the children should work.
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We sat and watched television an evening-
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- and heard that they were missing
apprentices to Savile Row.
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I said he should try.
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They could just say yes or no.
So he went in there.
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Anderson and Sheppard were founded
in 1906. We do things differently.
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We have our own style,
as our apprentices teach.
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I was taught
by a tailor from Cork.
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He was our best tailor.
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First year, collars and pockets are made
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- but you should be able to make a jacket
after a year.
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It should fit perfectly
and feels tailor made.
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I could not stay there
rest of life-
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- in a small tailoring
and fore reverses.
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But I burned for it
and was good at it.
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I learned quickly. I learned
to sew pants and wanted to learn everything.
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In the early 90's I had
a tailoring on Mount Street.
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He came in one day
and looked like a skinhead.
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He said he could cut
better than a tailor of 50 years.
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I was curious and asked him to show,
what he could.
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I have never made clothes
in a traditional way.
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I experimented
to create structure and fullness.
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I started
with any material.
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By putting them together you can
create three-dimensional shapes.
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He would like to understand why I
did something in a certain way.
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When Lee was 17 years old, he would make
some skirts to me.
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They fit like feet in the hose.
They were perfectly sewn to my body.
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I could barely move my legs,
but got many compliments.
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I hoped he would find it,
which suited him.
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He was a cute boy from the East End,
who would earn money.
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We needed mechanics,
mønsterklippere-
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- people with experience from
Manufacturing of clothes.
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He never broke down, met
time and knew what he was doing.
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He always listened
to Sinéad O'Connor.
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It did not make anyone else at that time,
but he liked her.
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I remembered him with his walkman.
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... two, one. Ignition. Start.
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Red or Dead
was a young streetwear company.
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When I said,
that the space baby collection-
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- was inspired by the anniversary of
moon landing, he was astonished.
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He did not know that one of the subjects,
who did not have clothes to do-
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-one is inspired to design clothes.
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He did not understand the idea of visual
research and historical references.
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We are landed. Eagle is the land.
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He asked, "What can I do now
to develop me? "
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At that time all Italian started
fashion houses new badges.
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He went to Italy without being able to
language and without housing and money.
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I thought he would come home
after a week with the tail between the legs.
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One week later
called Lee from Italy.
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He had got a job with Romeo Gigli.
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To say I was shocked,
is an understatement.
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I said,
that I wanted a new jacket.
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"I have an idea, but mine
tailors can not make it. "
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"You might help me."
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We started the jacket
and had first cooking.
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I said:
"No, that's not what I want."
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The tailor and Lee made another order.
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We tried the second time.
I looked at lining and that was wrong.
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Third fix. Wrong again.
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I took lined up and on the inside
they had written in black:
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"Go to hell, Romeo!"
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At that point I was looking
for new forms. Shapes, shapes.
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He looked carefully and thoroughly.
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He really tried
to understand everything.
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He stopped at me,
because he wanted to study.
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You can not teach them talent. You can
make them better for what they do.
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For me, the idea of education-
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- that they should work in teams,
as you do in the fashion industry.
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I saw a not particularly intriguing,
rather shabby and unattractive ...
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I'm sorry to say that,
but that's how it was.
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... boy with a stack of clothes on his arm,
who sat outside my office.
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I asked who he was looking for,
and it turned out to be me.
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I had no posts,
but I was interested.
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He was passionate. It is
the secret if you find it.
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I offered him
to start my course.
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I could not offer money.
It was clear that he had no one.
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Our aunt Renee had a little
spared up and wanted to help Lee.
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She had worked with clothes and knew,
that Lee had talent.
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He came back and said that his
aunt would pay for the course.
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Saint Martins was the best.
There was freedom to express themselves-
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-and encompasses like-minded ones.
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We were good friends because we had
same kind of humor.
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He always laughed
and was fun and disrespectful.
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He walked the catwalk on the hallways
and made fun with everyone all the time.
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Could he make fun, he did it.
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I taught there at the time.
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He was not afraid to say,
that he knew better.
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He was a nightmare,
because he could so much.
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He was probably demanding,
but he never dared to interrupt me.
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But he used it,
as I had thought.
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He could see a painting
or a book ...
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Since he had no education,
was everything new to him.
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He interpreted everything in his own way.
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It was not filtered, as with us-
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- with more conventional backgrounds.
I loved that.
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He knew where to find everything.
London was his city.
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"Who has buttonholes?"
"Martin in Soho."
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"Do you want textiles, so do
Berwick Street and Shepherd's Bush. "
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He took me to gay men-
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- and said,
that it and it was something for me.
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"No, I want to go home and read."
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The course ended with a show.
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No other schools
was invited to the fashion week.
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He called when he was almost done
with his collection and asked me to come.
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It had all the elements.
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There was East End's story,
the darkness with Jack the Ripper.
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There was research and a good story.
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He read the "Perfume,"
which deals with female murder-
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-and he had a dark side
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He was inspired by that-
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and created something very beautiful of it.
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The clothes passed me and moved
in a way I had never seen.
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I wanted it.
It was modern. It was classical.
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There was a black jacket
with human hair on the blood red for.
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It was like a body like flesh and blood.
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It was the most beautiful,
I had ever seen.
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Sabotage and tradition.
A perfect combination.
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Beauty and violence.
Everything that the 90s represent.
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- Is it hard to see genius?
- No. They have it and I see it.
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If you go to fashion history at the time,
do you know Isabella Blow.
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I was at American Vogue,
when Anna Wintour discovered me.
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McQueen was her knight,
and she would lead him to the tops.
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I called his mother and said,
that she had created a genius.
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His mother had said,
that an insane woman had called.
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I called 6-8 times a day,
before I catch him. "Hello?"
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I would make an appointment, but he
did not know who I was.
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- No, I just wanted money.
- I just wanted the clothes.
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She was told:
"350. Take it if you want."
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She was quite dear.
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It was only when I saw
his show in Bluebird Garage-
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- that I realized that
What I had unleashed.
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He said,
that it was my profit.
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It was nicely said,
but that was not true at all.
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He had fought to the tops
all by yourself.
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All fashion creators will create one
illusion, which shakes and fascinates.
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Clothes are beautiful,
but there is a reality out there.
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People will think that everything is rosy,
but I say it as it is.
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In the 1990s, clothes were made to go
in town in, clothes for a special evening.
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It was planned which club, which
people and what dj you wanted to see.
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Lee took everything.
It is one of his strengths.
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Lee took a lot of Bowery, which is
cross-border and provocative.
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He would transfer that to the catwalk.
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Lee used the fetish language
with rubber, latex and leather-
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-and took it with her fashion design.
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We became lovers-
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- and it was useful,
because I could also sew.
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There was anyone who could sew.
You did not have to be skilled-
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- Just wanted to sit in the tailoring
for 16 hours and was fun.
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Lee was the uninvited,
naughty schoolboy-
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- Who made a fuss with everyone at the pub.
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It was him I loved.
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Put your hands on it!
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I've always wanted to.
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When I met Lee the first time,
I lived at Hoxton Square.
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One day a guy came,
which had moved in below.
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"Come in and have a cup of tea."
He asked what I was doing.
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I made hair and makeup for men.
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"I'll show you soon."
hair and makeup on the boys? "
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"Do not you want to see my job? I have
never worked at fashion shows. "
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"No, I can feel it."
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One day he said he would make
his own collection.
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How could he believe,
that he could?
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He had no money,
no resources-
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-this sister, support or charity
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But he had decided.
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I have survived on assistance.
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I bought
all my textiles on assistance.
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I went home to my parents
and got cans with beans and soup.
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It is...
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It's my daddy.
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He would need a logo.
We then asked my girlfriend.
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It was my idea to place the C inside
in the Q, but Dave made the rest.
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He could make people work
separately. We were never paid.
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We paid him to work
for him. Unbelievable, not?
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Just to be
part of his vision.
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He had an attraction.
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It's like Warhol.
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Dance to success. Come on!
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Isabella would call him Alexander-
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- because it sounded better and more romantic
for a designer.
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Issie got criticism
to make him nice on it.
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She would make him a success.
Managed.
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Why do you love her?
- She's like me. Do not care.
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We are not like everyone else and have
our own opinion about things.
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When you love someone, you are fit
on those who were their own garden.
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People go to the garden or cook.
My ingredient is clothes.
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She presented him to everyone.
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What began as work,
became a creative friendship.
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She was always excited and wanted
See the next new and crowded people.
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It was never about money.
I never saw money being exchanged.
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I remember all the laughter
and creativity.
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They were on an adventure,
a rocket against the moon.
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You are a hungry little crab.
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At first there were happy days.
Short-lived but beautiful and fun.
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Issie had no children, so she gave
all his love for his protege.
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Alexander made me laugh.
They had a dirty form of humor.
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He described Issie as a blend of
Lucrezia Borgia and a fisherman's census.
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Issie had vulgar humor.
Everything that dick and pussy ...
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I was a little ... The kind of humor
did not just me
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Was McQueen rough, was Issie always
worse. They loved to egg each other.
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Alexander loves birds,
so I have made this hatred.
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We're going to fly with falcons tomorrow,
for Alexander loves birds.
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We're going to fly with falcons tomorrow.
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We went to Hilles sometimes.
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We ended up in Issies costume box-
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and took amazing costumes.
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Her world was so far from it,
we came from
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It was a bit unreal,
but we always felt at home there.
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Lee felt very much at home there.
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She was a crazy big sister
to be together with.
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For Issie it was about
being different.
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The cutter, the more she loved it.
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The norm is not me.
You do not develop with a safe card.
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You piss a lot of.
234
00:22:42,352 --> 00:22:46,189
His first shows were incredible.
People lost their breath.
235
00:22:46,273 --> 00:22:53,029
People emigrated, that was bitter
criticism, but everything else faded.
236
00:22:53,113 --> 00:22:58,326
People should not leave from there and feel,
that it was boring.
237
00:22:58,410 --> 00:23:03,999
They must feel disgust or enthusiasm.
238
00:23:04,082 --> 00:23:11,214
Only they feel something. If not,
I have not done it well enough.
239
00:23:11,298 --> 00:23:14,843
Alexander's clothes are emotional.
240
00:23:14,926 --> 00:23:18,638
This jacket is based on a homeless-
241
00:23:18,722 --> 00:23:22,726
- the money that lives on the street-
242
00:23:22,809 --> 00:23:28,899
- but it's great to wear.
It is passion, love-
243
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sex dating, sex and romance.
244
00:23:33,278 --> 00:23:36,489
The thought was never to produce.
245
00:23:36,573 --> 00:23:39,618
I would create attention-
246
00:23:39,701 --> 00:23:43,997
- and a name
for the designer Alexander McQueen.
247
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:50,003
The clothes could not be restored. It was
made of plastic bags and tape.
248
00:23:50,086 --> 00:23:55,133
Lee made the so-called bumsters,
That revealed the model's hairs.
249
00:23:55,217 --> 00:23:58,512
It has never been about pubic hair.
250
00:23:58,595 --> 00:24:05,352
It's about changing the body
proportions and get a longer torso.
251
00:24:05,435 --> 00:24:09,564
It's not about showing numb,
but that's a bonus.
252
00:24:09,648 --> 00:24:15,278
He said they were going to stab
Sexuality in the Mount of Anna Wintour.
253
00:24:16,363 --> 00:24:18,740
It's fun and naughty.
254
00:24:18,823 --> 00:24:23,286
Are you giving Alexander 500 pounds,
he creates 30 pieces of clothes.
255
00:24:23,370 --> 00:24:27,082
He made a dress
of some plastic film on the floor.
256
00:24:27,165 --> 00:24:33,129
He put the model on it, put a zipper
I sent her on the catwalk.
257
00:24:33,213 --> 00:24:38,134
To take a tire
and drive it over a suit ...
258
00:24:38,218 --> 00:24:40,220
Brilliant.
259
00:24:40,303 --> 00:24:46,226
Lace for four pounds. Invisible zipper
one pound. Spray with auto paint.
260
00:24:46,309 --> 00:24:49,479
It has cost less than ten pounds to make.
261
00:24:49,563 --> 00:24:55,485
But because it was made by Lee,
was demanded.
262
00:24:55,569 --> 00:24:58,363
They wanted one for Sharon Stone.
263
00:24:58,446 --> 00:25:03,368
Someone should fly the dress over
with Concorde.
264
00:25:03,451 --> 00:25:07,873
I'm still mad about it,
that I did not flew into Concorde.
265
00:25:07,956 --> 00:25:10,083
It was me.
266
00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:15,297
There was,
that it started to get wild.
267
00:25:15,380 --> 00:25:22,053
The show went well, but I'm missing
milk. Where do I find 42 pence?
268
00:25:22,137 --> 00:25:26,600
We went to McDonald's
and bought two cheeseburgers.
269
00:25:26,683 --> 00:25:31,938
I was so tired that I lost the ground,
but we collected the food.
270
00:25:32,022 --> 00:25:38,236
We have participated in London Fashion
Week but can not afford food.
271
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:44,034
That's the way it is. You can make beautiful
shows, but one has to live.
272
00:25:44,117 --> 00:25:47,746
BBC1 with 12 million viewers.
273
00:25:47,829 --> 00:25:54,711
22 years. He would not be filmed
for interview. He decided.
274
00:25:54,794 --> 00:26:01,426
I made the shows while I was on
assistance so I did not have to show me.
275
00:26:01,510 --> 00:26:05,055
I could be arrested
to work.
276
00:26:05,138 --> 00:26:08,725
Were you mad? It was otherwise meant.
277
00:26:08,808 --> 00:26:11,686
I drove the style
like him from the east end.
278
00:26:11,770 --> 00:26:16,733
A hooligan who could use a needle.
279
00:26:16,816 --> 00:26:20,654
People could not understand it.
It was new, a breath of fresh air.
280
00:26:20,737 --> 00:26:26,451
Savile Row, Cockneygut.
He knew it was seductive.
281
00:26:26,535 --> 00:26:31,831
I'm getting annoyed when I'm reading
the. He was not a mess.
282
00:26:31,915 --> 00:26:38,380
He was affectionate and happy
as a child and very generous.
283
00:26:38,463 --> 00:26:41,633
A beautiful face.
284
00:26:41,716 --> 00:26:45,303
I once remember their home.
285
00:26:45,387 --> 00:26:48,932
I said the word "pis"
in front of his mother.
286
00:26:49,015 --> 00:26:53,645
He said, "You shall not fathom
gang in front of my mother. "
287
00:26:53,728 --> 00:26:59,734
We were never poor as such.
My husband drove the taxi.
288
00:26:59,818 --> 00:27:04,155
Although we had six children,
they did not lack anything.
289
00:27:04,239 --> 00:27:07,993
It just feels ...
290
00:27:08,076 --> 00:27:14,291
... as an honest place.
You know where you have each other.
291
00:27:14,374 --> 00:27:19,963
Will anyone rob one, they say so
first. I'm just kidding.
292
00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:26,261
From my grandfather he got his humor,
which could be harsh.
293
00:27:26,344 --> 00:27:29,764
I know, boy.
294
00:27:29,848 --> 00:27:34,519
I think it was difficult
to come from that background.
295
00:27:34,603 --> 00:27:40,901
I told my father that I was
gay. Everyone else knew it.
296
00:27:40,984 --> 00:27:46,781
But my dad said things like
"skid gays" and it was difficult.
297
00:27:46,865 --> 00:27:51,369
Dad could be tough,
but it was too funny.
298
00:27:51,453 --> 00:27:54,998
One could easily misunderstand him.
299
00:27:56,041 --> 00:28:02,839
Lees Dad never understood completely,
what Lee was doing
300
00:28:02,923 --> 00:28:07,093
My dad would have,
that I should be a mechanic.
301
00:28:07,177 --> 00:28:10,388
That was not how it was.
302
00:28:10,472 --> 00:28:16,269
From grandma he got the narrative.
The gloomy romance of the 19th century.
303
00:28:16,353 --> 00:28:22,359
It worked well with his visions
and what he wanted to tell.
304
00:28:23,193 --> 00:28:28,823
- It's ok, mom.
- Not me. I'm too ugly.
305
00:28:28,907 --> 00:28:31,576
Come on mom.
306
00:28:32,661 --> 00:28:35,497
- You destroyed the camera.
- I know.
307
00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:39,000
She was very strong.
308
00:28:39,084 --> 00:28:45,090
There was much that was not said,
but they had a strong bond.
309
00:28:45,173 --> 00:28:49,511
She gave him the feeling,
that he could do everything.
310
00:28:49,594 --> 00:28:54,850
I encouraged them to read
and have many books.
311
00:28:54,933 --> 00:28:59,479
I can do it myself
like history and such.
312
00:28:59,563 --> 00:29:02,774
This is about Scottish clans.
313
00:29:02,858 --> 00:29:06,236
She researched the McQueen genus-
314
00:29:06,319 --> 00:29:11,658
- and wanted to prove that they came
from the McQueen genus on the Isle of Skye.
315
00:29:11,741 --> 00:29:14,327
It opened his world.
316
00:29:14,411 --> 00:29:19,624
He was born in Stratford,
but also had roots in Scotland.
317
00:29:19,708 --> 00:29:25,130
She encouraged the fantasies,
and Lee jumped on it.
318
00:29:26,882 --> 00:29:31,136
There are two kinds of Scotland,
to which people relate.
319
00:29:31,219 --> 00:29:35,807
Vivienne Westwoods Scotland
with the clan and silk.
320
00:29:35,891 --> 00:29:42,230
My legacy is the Jacobites, the war
between Englishmen and Scotts-
321
00:29:42,314 --> 00:29:49,446
- where the Englishmen raped women
and committed genocide against the clans.
322
00:29:49,529 --> 00:29:56,119
It does not know people.
How many have died in Bosnia?
323
00:29:56,203 --> 00:30:01,750
It's genocide.
People do not know that it still happens.
324
00:30:10,592 --> 00:30:13,261
He was different.
325
00:30:13,345 --> 00:30:19,643
He had more of an artist's energy
than a fashion designer.
326
00:30:20,769 --> 00:30:25,607
I called his mother and said,
that I would work for her son.
327
00:30:25,690 --> 00:30:29,611
I got the address and went there.
328
00:30:29,694 --> 00:30:34,991
Then we cooperated
in the collection "Highland Rape" -
329
00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:38,203
-and tried to get the clothes ready.
330
00:30:38,286 --> 00:30:43,375
Sometimes he had not begun
on something that should soon be ready.
331
00:30:43,458 --> 00:30:49,923
Then he made a series of sketches,
and then the collection was ready.
332
00:30:50,006 --> 00:30:52,717
Very fast and fluid.
333
00:30:52,801 --> 00:30:58,014
He was creative at night.
Adrenaline was more alive.
334
00:30:58,098 --> 00:31:01,226
We put music on.
335
00:31:01,309 --> 00:31:05,856
He listened to piano music.
It became important.
336
00:31:05,939 --> 00:31:09,943
Composers Michael Nyman
became part of the team.
337
00:31:10,026 --> 00:31:15,365
I enjoyed watching him sit
like an old lady-
338
00:31:15,448 --> 00:31:18,577
-with a needle and fingerball.
339
00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:24,541
One could feel,
that it was therapeutic for him.
340
00:31:24,624 --> 00:31:29,087
He went into himself,
and his eyes became black.
341
00:31:29,171 --> 00:31:34,926
He was so focused that he almost
did not hear his surroundings.
342
00:31:35,010 --> 00:31:41,183
He could only sketch a jacket
with a piece of chalk without measuring.
343
00:31:41,266 --> 00:31:47,606
He could measure his eyes
and draw it on the fabric.
344
00:31:47,689 --> 00:31:54,446
Lee was romantic and it bounces
in the physical relationship with the product.
345
00:31:54,529 --> 00:31:58,450
It pounds in the craftsmanship.
346
00:32:02,162 --> 00:32:07,000
The family was always invited.
It was important that grandmother came.
347
00:32:07,083 --> 00:32:09,669
He would make her proud.
348
00:32:09,753 --> 00:32:16,635
Moster Renee and mother gave
models food, probably sausage horn.
349
00:32:16,718 --> 00:32:21,348
We young cool English models-
350
00:32:21,431 --> 00:32:26,353
- pleased to meet the man
with that rumor.
351
00:32:26,436 --> 00:32:30,649
I was amazed
over all the people and photographers.
352
00:32:30,732 --> 00:32:36,613
"You gentle. They are here to see Lee.
Only they will not be disappointed. "
353
00:32:36,696 --> 00:32:41,034
"It's just Lee from Stratford."
354
00:32:54,756 --> 00:32:59,302
The darkness. To go down into the deep-
355
00:32:59,386 --> 00:33:04,391
- and the mind of the mind to create
"Highland Rape".
356
00:33:04,474 --> 00:33:09,229
"The girls must look as if
they have just been raped. "
357
00:33:09,312 --> 00:33:14,192
We looked,
as we just got out of a hedge.
358
00:33:14,276 --> 00:33:17,404
"Should hair and makeup be like that?"
359
00:33:20,156 --> 00:33:27,122
It's not clothes that are easy to look at.
It looks like something from a crime scene.
360
00:33:34,671 --> 00:33:39,926
I thought he did not like
women or models.
361
00:33:40,010 --> 00:33:44,264
He did not like anything
and just wanted to bother us.
362
00:33:44,347 --> 00:33:48,977
But his visions and silhouettes ...
363
00:33:49,060 --> 00:33:53,356
He got us
to look absolutely amazing.
364
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,361
I did not understand as just 15-year-
365
00:33:58,445 --> 00:34:00,864
all the connotations.
366
00:34:00,947 --> 00:34:07,245
It was only the next day when I read
the newspaper and read the review.
367
00:34:07,329 --> 00:34:14,002
The show's message was quite intense.
He was on all sides.
368
00:34:14,085 --> 00:34:18,340
That's what he wanted. Managed.
369
00:34:19,174 --> 00:34:23,553
A politician from Dagenham believes,
that it is inadmissible.
370
00:34:23,637 --> 00:34:29,142
Alone title will shock
and attract attention.
371
00:34:29,226 --> 00:34:33,021
It has happened and it is sad.
372
00:34:33,104 --> 00:34:39,110
Women will look fashionable,
but not portrayed as victims.
373
00:34:40,028 --> 00:34:42,948
I'm not a woman's hate.
374
00:34:43,031 --> 00:34:47,869
I want to show how a man takes
from a woman. It is rape.
375
00:34:47,953 --> 00:34:51,706
My big sister
was beaten by his husband.
376
00:34:51,790 --> 00:34:56,795
Looking at her 8-year-old sister
near be quenched by his husband-
377
00:34:56,878 --> 00:35:00,841
- do you want to do everything possible,
that women appear stronger.
378
00:35:00,924 --> 00:35:03,885
You may not like
his honesty-
379
00:35:03,969 --> 00:35:10,475
- and find it tasteless and
misogynist. That was his truth.
380
00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:15,647
The clothes tells about Lee.
It's almost like confessions.
381
00:35:15,730 --> 00:35:19,568
It's about things,
which happened in his childhood.
382
00:35:20,652 --> 00:35:24,739
We sat in the apartment one evening,
when he said,
383
00:35:24,823 --> 00:35:28,827
"I was abused by my brother-in-law,
when I was a child."
384
00:35:28,910 --> 00:35:33,039
It just came out,
and he began to cry.
385
00:35:33,123 --> 00:35:35,959
We started talking-
386
00:35:36,042 --> 00:35:40,839
- but pretty fast
he would not talk about it anymore.
387
00:35:40,922 --> 00:35:46,469
What he saw ... The violence against my mother,
my father's abuse of him.
388
00:35:46,553 --> 00:35:52,058
The violence they were both exposed to,
tied them together.
389
00:35:52,142 --> 00:35:56,855
They were both mistreated
of the same.
390
00:35:56,938 --> 00:36:00,692
It gave them a special bond.
391
00:36:00,775 --> 00:36:07,949
Lee saw my mother as a parent figure,
as he would protect-
392
00:36:08,033 --> 00:36:10,577
and mother would protect him.
393
00:36:11,786 --> 00:36:17,209
I carried a rather heavy burden
on my shoulders.
394
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,758
I and Lee always had
stood close and ...
395
00:36:26,301 --> 00:36:33,016
As a child, Lee had seen some
violent episodes in the home.
396
00:36:34,601 --> 00:36:39,731
It must have affected him.
397
00:36:40,857 --> 00:36:43,443
He had to go with it.
398
00:36:43,527 --> 00:36:48,448
How could he get the demons out,
protect women and themselves-
399
00:36:48,532 --> 00:36:55,080
- by creating strong women wearing
a form of armor for his heart.
400
00:36:56,289 --> 00:37:00,377
I always say,
that our relationship lasted four seasons.
401
00:37:00,460 --> 00:37:04,548
The collections and shows marked-
402
00:37:04,631 --> 00:37:09,553
- how close our work
Linked to our relationship.
403
00:37:09,636 --> 00:37:15,559
When I think about it, I do not know,
how it could work
404
00:37:15,642 --> 00:37:21,231
With all that happened in his life,
everything in his past ...
405
00:37:21,314 --> 00:37:25,902
How can any relationship do it?
406
00:37:36,496 --> 00:37:40,750
I have to question
by my motivation to be in the industry.
407
00:37:40,834 --> 00:37:44,629
Therefore, it must be successful.
I do what's going on.
408
00:37:44,713 --> 00:37:48,842
You do not
for fame and glamor.
409
00:37:51,052 --> 00:37:55,473
First year at Saint Martins
you go to Paris.
410
00:37:55,557 --> 00:37:59,352
The idea is,
to go to art exhibitions-
411
00:37:59,436 --> 00:38:03,607
-but we only went to fashion shows.
412
00:38:03,690 --> 00:38:08,361
We saw one,
which was full of flowers and chiffon.
413
00:38:08,445 --> 00:38:13,408
Lee thought it was worthless.
Ussel display.
414
00:38:13,491 --> 00:38:18,163
"Givenchy is the pure shit.
It's for old ladies. "
415
00:38:18,246 --> 00:38:22,042
"I will never work
such a place. "
416
00:38:22,125 --> 00:38:27,422
French haute couture will be British.
After John Galliano's shift to Dior-
417
00:38:27,506 --> 00:38:33,512
- Alexander McQueen is appointed to
make Givenchys summer collection.
418
00:38:33,595 --> 00:38:38,767
It was an exciting time to cover
fashion on, for the industry changed.
419
00:38:38,850 --> 00:38:44,898
People like Bernard Arnault bought
small marks and made them big.
420
00:38:44,981 --> 00:38:49,736
First, he picked up John Galliano,
which was moved to Dior.
421
00:38:49,819 --> 00:38:53,990
They should use another new one,
young talent to Givenchy.
422
00:38:54,074 --> 00:39:00,288
- Why did he want you?
- He said I was his horse.
423
00:39:00,372 --> 00:39:06,169
I do not know if that was the look,
but I was the horse he was focusing on.
424
00:39:06,253 --> 00:39:09,631
I lived with Lee,
when Givenchy called.
425
00:39:09,714 --> 00:39:13,510
He thought,
that he should draw a handbag.
426
00:39:13,593 --> 00:39:18,265
"Wow! That was cool."
427
00:39:18,348 --> 00:39:22,060
Then he suddenly came in and said-
428
00:39:22,143 --> 00:39:27,232
that they had asked him to be
creative director of Givenchy.
429
00:39:27,315 --> 00:39:29,651
"It's just a lie!"
430
00:39:29,734 --> 00:39:33,738
He called and said,
that he had been offered a job. "
431
00:39:33,822 --> 00:39:37,242
"Do you take
if I move to Paris? "
432
00:39:37,325 --> 00:39:41,913
That was exciting,
but also scary-
433
00:39:41,997 --> 00:39:45,000
because it was at the beginning of the relationship.
434
00:39:45,083 --> 00:39:48,879
Why move to Givenchy,
when you already were a name?
435
00:39:48,962 --> 00:39:52,716
Named the Designer of the Year
two consecutive years.
436
00:39:52,799 --> 00:39:55,760
A reason. That was good money.
437
00:39:55,844 --> 00:39:59,681
The money from Givenchy
goes into the McQueen-
438
00:39:59,764 --> 00:40:03,643
- so I can hire
and build my company.
439
00:40:03,727 --> 00:40:07,772
He really took talented people
along. What a team.
440
00:40:07,856 --> 00:40:13,695
He would need a team,
and he had me in mind.
441
00:40:13,778 --> 00:40:19,451
"Think about it."
"Not necessary. I'm on."
442
00:40:20,911 --> 00:40:27,500
We flew from City Airport
and were the most sophisticated people on the plane.
443
00:40:27,584 --> 00:40:34,758
The others were businessmen.
We sat in bleached jeans and attitude.
444
00:40:35,425 --> 00:40:40,764
- Is it in Japan?
- No.
445
00:40:40,847 --> 00:40:42,933
Wow!
446
00:40:48,188 --> 00:40:50,565
It was wildly exciting.
447
00:40:50,649 --> 00:40:56,821
To get so much responsibility
and so much money of that age.
448
00:40:59,783 --> 00:41:03,703
There was Sebastian Pons.
- Hi Sebastian!
449
00:41:03,787 --> 00:41:07,082
Sweaty armpits. It shows.
450
00:41:07,165 --> 00:41:12,003
In McQueen's tailoring
I was a bit like a clown.
451
00:41:12,087 --> 00:41:17,342
They made fun of my accent.
A Spanish fool in a British court.
452
00:41:18,593 --> 00:41:23,223
- Simon Costin.
Did you make any fun?
453
00:41:23,306 --> 00:41:27,060
I was the one,
which created the context.
454
00:41:27,143 --> 00:41:33,567
The stage was the collection
silent account.
455
00:41:33,650 --> 00:41:36,319
We had Katy England.
456
00:41:36,403 --> 00:41:39,990
Katy is the most important part of McQueen.
457
00:41:40,073 --> 00:41:42,075
Camera up.
458
00:41:42,158 --> 00:41:46,746
She completes me.
She nurtures my imagination.
459
00:41:46,830 --> 00:41:50,834
I am doing research for the collection.
460
00:41:50,917 --> 00:41:55,922
I make him aware of things,
which I find important.
461
00:41:56,006 --> 00:41:59,009
I am always by his side.
462
00:41:59,092 --> 00:42:02,929
Shaun Leane was with
and made jewelry.
463
00:42:03,013 --> 00:42:05,891
What do you say? Would you like to dance?
464
00:42:05,974 --> 00:42:11,021
It's perfect for me.
I can switch between extremes.
465
00:42:11,104 --> 00:42:14,357
Now I've started
with body jewelery.
466
00:42:14,441 --> 00:42:18,445
It is a form of sculpture.
467
00:42:18,528 --> 00:42:21,865
Sarah Burton was our intern.
468
00:42:21,948 --> 00:42:28,371
He saw us as his supporters,
which would make him safe.
469
00:42:30,498 --> 00:42:33,335
We rented a nice apartment.
470
00:42:37,130 --> 00:42:41,301
I loved the area.
Place des Vosges, hello.
471
00:42:42,052 --> 00:42:44,971
God, how scary is it?
472
00:42:45,055 --> 00:42:51,937
It was so small. When I arrived
To work, I sat on the couch.
473
00:42:57,567 --> 00:43:01,988
Sebastian! Can we have chambermaids?
474
00:43:02,822 --> 00:43:09,454
I always slept in the Lees room,
because he fell asleep on the couch.
475
00:43:09,538 --> 00:43:12,040
Lee?
476
00:43:12,123 --> 00:43:15,835
- Have you changed the pillows?
- Gu, I have that.
477
00:43:17,921 --> 00:43:20,674
We had a driver and were driven around.
478
00:43:20,757 --> 00:43:24,052
Now he is unclear. That was better.
479
00:43:24,135 --> 00:43:27,097
Say hi to them in England.
480
00:43:28,223 --> 00:43:30,642
It was so funny.
481
00:43:30,725 --> 00:43:33,770
We can make fun tricks.
482
00:43:33,854 --> 00:43:37,274
I'm on speed, taxes.
483
00:43:40,277 --> 00:43:44,406
When we came to Givenchy-
484
00:43:44,489 --> 00:43:49,744
- stood all and bent for him and
called him "monsieur McQueen".
485
00:43:49,828 --> 00:43:53,623
"Do you call you McQueen monsieur?"
486
00:43:57,168 --> 00:43:59,254
Cath!
487
00:44:00,589 --> 00:44:03,592
When we arrived they were shaken-
488
00:44:03,675 --> 00:44:08,805
- about our clothes and working style,
and how we made fun.
489
00:44:08,889 --> 00:44:13,685
There was a chandelier feeling.
Quite different to the London-based sister-
490
00:44:13,768 --> 00:44:17,939
- which was a small room
with things everywhere.
491
00:44:18,023 --> 00:44:23,695
Here's my office. I'm just calling,
then I get what I want.
492
00:44:23,778 --> 00:44:27,449
Because I want it!
So I ask for it.
493
00:44:27,532 --> 00:44:32,204
We were just a bunch of kids,
who ran around at Givenchy.
494
00:44:32,287 --> 00:44:38,043
- Did they surprise you?
"Most people went closest to coma.
495
00:44:40,879 --> 00:44:46,009
Suddenly we sit there at Givenchy-
496
00:44:46,092 --> 00:44:49,971
-and see Balenciaga through the window.
497
00:44:50,055 --> 00:44:52,974
There was Yves Saint Laurent.
498
00:44:53,058 --> 00:44:57,145
Galliano was on Avenue Montaigne
just nearby.
499
00:44:57,229 --> 00:45:03,151
There we sat with Alexander McQueen,
which was the latest one.
500
00:45:03,235 --> 00:45:06,154
I felt special.
501
00:45:06,238 --> 00:45:12,994
He should make great impression,
since it was his first collection.
502
00:45:13,078 --> 00:45:17,874
I said, "Everyone is looking at us,
but we have nothing. "
503
00:45:17,958 --> 00:45:21,044
He always replied: "It's alright."
504
00:45:22,379 --> 00:45:25,799
We get the ideas at the last minute.
505
00:45:25,882 --> 00:45:31,304
They just come to me.
It comes from God.
506
00:45:31,388 --> 00:45:34,683
I always look for signs.
507
00:45:36,893 --> 00:45:41,147
This is Paris-chic.
It's Givenchy, not McQueen.
508
00:45:41,231 --> 00:45:45,443
Elegant suits are made here
of beautiful fabrics.
509
00:45:45,527 --> 00:45:50,824
My brand will be 40 years
about getting such a reminder.
510
00:45:50,907 --> 00:45:54,369
We saw a beautiful piece of clothes.
511
00:45:54,452 --> 00:46:00,959
Lee asked Chief Catherine
The Londres, who had sewn it.
512
00:46:01,042 --> 00:46:03,837
She did not have to come in.
513
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,257
"What do you mean? Close her in!"
514
00:46:07,340 --> 00:46:09,926
From then on-
515
00:46:10,010 --> 00:46:15,432
- would Lee meet the one who had
worked directly with the clothes.
516
00:46:15,515 --> 00:46:18,101
They loved it.
517
00:46:18,185 --> 00:46:21,354
It's the Bet Lynch dress.
518
00:46:21,438 --> 00:46:24,900
We have treated it with plastic-
519
00:46:24,983 --> 00:46:28,904
so you can also get a raincoat.
520
00:46:28,987 --> 00:46:34,159
None of us spoke French.
Nobody spoke English in the tailor-made.
521
00:46:34,242 --> 00:46:37,829
Lee had to draw in the air,
how it should be
522
00:46:37,913 --> 00:46:42,334
- But there are skirts.
- Okay.
523
00:46:42,417 --> 00:46:48,465
Well, now I understand.
I thought it was trousers.
524
00:46:48,548 --> 00:46:53,678
I get scared when he takes
the scissors forward. That's the way it is.
525
00:46:53,762 --> 00:46:58,808
When he plays with the scissors ...
He has cut something for me.
526
00:46:58,892 --> 00:47:03,813
A pair of trousers. He changed them
from pants to a body.
527
00:47:04,439 --> 00:47:08,818
So now I'm scared
when he takes the scissors forward.
528
00:47:09,903 --> 00:47:16,243
They are precise and remove the threads.
I'm just wondering.
529
00:47:16,326 --> 00:47:21,623
They do so ...
But it's just clothes.
530
00:47:21,706 --> 00:47:27,587
I never forget her
facial expression. But she understood it.
531
00:47:27,671 --> 00:47:32,843
She was impressed,
and there was great mutual respect.
532
00:47:32,926 --> 00:47:36,638
It's about the tailoring.
I'm from Savile Row.
533
00:47:36,721 --> 00:47:42,310
I respect the tailors.
They deserve the same respect as I do.
534
00:47:42,394 --> 00:47:47,190
One day, Lee asked,
where the workers eat
535
00:47:47,274 --> 00:47:51,987
Catherine said,
that there was a canteen in the basement.
536
00:47:52,070 --> 00:47:57,868
Lee meant that we should go down there,
and everyone flipped out.
537
00:47:57,951 --> 00:48:02,205
"Does Alexander eat here?"
They could not grasp it.
538
00:48:02,289 --> 00:48:06,626
Fashion houses treat the designer
like a king.
539
00:48:06,710 --> 00:48:11,214
Lee too, but he did not want to
behave like a king.
540
00:48:11,298 --> 00:48:14,718
Lee would be
an ordinary person.
541
00:48:17,888 --> 00:48:19,639
Fine.
542
00:48:19,723 --> 00:48:24,394
The ideas of the show arose
from the collection.
543
00:48:24,477 --> 00:48:31,109
He drew on stories from there.
There were pictures and patches everywhere.
544
00:48:31,193 --> 00:48:34,279
Everyone contributed.
It was a group work.
545
00:48:34,362 --> 00:48:38,408
But Lee was the spider in the net
and assembled everything-
546
00:48:38,491 --> 00:48:41,494
-and distilled his ideas.
547
00:48:41,578 --> 00:48:48,293
I remember the week for a show,
when making changes.
548
00:48:48,376 --> 00:48:52,839
It was insane.
The pressure was huge.
549
00:48:52,923 --> 00:48:58,845
It is too different. One can not
show a lot of different.
550
00:48:58,929 --> 00:49:03,975
We have just introduced
all the diamonds in a department.
551
00:49:04,809 --> 00:49:08,104
Otherwise it will be messy.
552
00:49:08,188 --> 00:49:15,362
25 days to create a collection
With 55 pieces of clothing is not easy.
553
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:25,330
The first theme was the golden skins,
Jason and the Argonauts.
554
00:49:25,413 --> 00:49:28,250
They asked for something amazing.
555
00:49:28,333 --> 00:49:32,003
My impression was that Alex would have-
556
00:49:32,087 --> 00:49:37,634
-a mixture of warriors and goddesses.
557
00:49:37,717 --> 00:49:41,346
"We can make horns."
"Yes, make them big."
558
00:49:41,429 --> 00:49:46,643
"How big?"
"Greater than Djengis Khans."
559
00:49:46,726 --> 00:49:53,149
It is January 19, 1997, and we
are witnesses to a fashion experience.
560
00:49:53,233 --> 00:49:57,070
He is only 27 years old
and winner of the British fashion award.
561
00:49:57,153 --> 00:50:02,450
Alexander McQueen must show
its first haute couture collection.
562
00:50:15,505 --> 00:50:21,136
Each model should have a role,
an identity and a signature.
563
00:50:21,219 --> 00:50:25,307
Every girl could have been
his own show.
564
00:50:25,390 --> 00:50:29,019
The inspiration came from the logo.
565
00:50:29,102 --> 00:50:34,191
The G looks like a Greek motive-
566
00:50:34,274 --> 00:50:38,028
- and Givenchy's logo is
in white and gold.
567
00:50:38,111 --> 00:50:45,076
As always with Lees collections
was there something that was a little daring.
568
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:50,332
The press focused on it,
there was outright-
569
00:50:50,415 --> 00:50:53,627
or impossible to join
570
00:50:53,710 --> 00:50:58,131
French designers complained,
that they were not French-
571
00:50:58,215 --> 00:51:01,885
and thought he destroyed Givenchy.
572
00:51:01,968 --> 00:51:05,931
He showed,
that he was still himself.
573
00:51:06,014 --> 00:51:10,477
"Even if you put me in one
beautiful palace, I am myself. "
574
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,480
They were true to themselves.
575
00:51:13,563 --> 00:51:18,318
They brought England to Paris
in their own way.
576
00:51:20,028 --> 00:51:23,156
People talked. Fashion Editors.
577
00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:27,744
"He is a cowboy.
The British. What are they thinking of? "
578
00:51:27,827 --> 00:51:32,499
I gradually realized,
that the world was against him.
579
00:51:32,582 --> 00:51:39,589
- Your first show was no success.
- Correct. Thank you.
580
00:51:39,673 --> 00:51:43,927
They wanted,
that he should fail and get a downturn.
581
00:51:44,010 --> 00:51:47,889
They have claws and knives
and stabbing everything in the back of the one-
582
00:51:47,973 --> 00:51:50,767
-but i strike again
583
00:51:50,851 --> 00:51:55,647
I can remember afterwards.
Lee was ...
584
00:51:56,356 --> 00:52:02,612
... devilish. It was difficult.
It was a tough night.
585
00:52:02,696 --> 00:52:06,616
There were some blows and quarrels.
586
00:52:11,830 --> 00:52:16,334
He has done a lot.
Givenchy has received a lot of money.
587
00:52:16,418 --> 00:52:20,172
It's not easy.
McQueen is McQueen in London-
588
00:52:20,255 --> 00:52:24,509
- but at Givenchy
shall he take over after another?
589
00:52:24,593 --> 00:52:31,266
He is going to haul a dinosaur on land.
He has done that in a season.
590
00:52:31,349 --> 00:52:35,937
In a year he could do
20 times more.
591
00:52:36,021 --> 00:52:40,192
Givenchy changed everything.
Morning was over.
592
00:52:40,275 --> 00:52:45,071
My accountant, who could French,
should sign a contract in Paris.
593
00:52:45,155 --> 00:52:51,119
Issie should get something, but McQueen
said it was not about money.
594
00:52:51,203 --> 00:52:56,917
When the money came, and Alexander
held her outside, it was hard.
595
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,462
The friendship changed. She was hurt.
596
00:53:00,545 --> 00:53:06,468
Had she had a salon at Givenchy,
they had been best in Paris.
597
00:53:09,429 --> 00:53:16,019
We were at Hilles, right after
he had started at Givenchy.
598
00:53:16,811 --> 00:53:22,108
The tension between them
was overwhelming.
599
00:53:22,192 --> 00:53:27,781
They think you created me.
It has never been about it.
600
00:53:27,864 --> 00:53:30,909
- They do not think so.
- Yes, they do.
601
00:53:30,992 --> 00:53:34,246
They always say that in the media.
602
00:53:34,329 --> 00:53:40,835
"Isabella Blow discovered
Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen. "
603
00:53:40,919 --> 00:53:44,005
It has never been about it.
604
00:53:44,089 --> 00:53:49,845
Does it annoy you that they say,
that Isabella Blow discovered you?
605
00:53:49,928 --> 00:53:55,725
No, Issie has helped me a lot,
but not that way.
606
00:53:55,809 --> 00:53:58,979
She does it,
because she loves my clothes.
607
00:53:59,062 --> 00:54:03,650
- That's the whole point.
"I can not betray her.
608
00:54:04,860 --> 00:54:07,362
I am just kidding.
609
00:54:07,445 --> 00:54:12,409
I sat and wanted to
that he would let Issie be.
610
00:54:12,492 --> 00:54:17,914
She had only helped him.
But he was after her all the time.
611
00:54:17,998 --> 00:54:22,544
Issie could make him a success.
He did not care about that.
612
00:54:22,627 --> 00:54:28,049
He would stand on his own,
and there was no room for Isabella.
613
00:54:28,133 --> 00:54:30,135
A punishment.
614
00:54:30,218 --> 00:54:34,973
I remember that he said,
that now it was him who was king-
615
00:54:35,056 --> 00:54:37,225
and it was not meant to be sweet.
616
00:54:37,350 --> 00:54:43,190
We did not have to show vulnerability,
but keep your head high.
617
00:54:43,273 --> 00:54:45,275
Something might happen.
618
00:54:45,358 --> 00:54:51,573
His star rose, but not her.
He left her.
619
00:54:51,656 --> 00:54:58,163
Issie got a job for the Sunday Times.
He said she was resurrected.
620
00:54:58,246 --> 00:55:00,957
"I can not thank you for that."
621
00:55:02,667 --> 00:55:07,047
I was like a gazelle
in the eyes of the media and the public.
622
00:55:07,130 --> 00:55:11,259
The gazelle is always eaten.
This is how I see human life.
623
00:55:11,343 --> 00:55:18,016
Anyone can be discarded. A designer's time
The media are perishable.
624
00:55:18,099 --> 00:55:23,188
One day you're gone.
It's a tough world.
625
00:55:23,271 --> 00:55:28,401
I went to his studio in London.
He talked about his show.
626
00:55:28,485 --> 00:55:35,659
"I tried to make them happy.
But now it will be more McQueen. "
627
00:55:35,742 --> 00:55:39,871
"Up in the ass with you all.
I'll show you. "
628
00:55:39,955 --> 00:55:43,750
We went from the fine sale at Givenchy-
629
00:55:43,833 --> 00:55:49,422
- to a raw borough market
with raw fruit from the earth.
630
00:55:49,506 --> 00:55:55,262
It was good to show them the harsh of the city
neighborhoods and scare them a little.
631
00:55:55,345 --> 00:56:01,810
It's not about haute couture and
Givenchy. It's another McQueen.
632
00:56:01,893 --> 00:56:04,771
Photographers at the front.
633
00:56:04,855 --> 00:56:08,859
To the London shows
expectations were high.
634
00:56:08,942 --> 00:56:12,904
In Paris, it was more formal
and booked.
635
00:56:12,988 --> 00:56:16,366
In London people sat and shouted and screamed.
636
00:56:17,826 --> 00:56:24,165
It was insane. People were beaten
to see the catwalk.
637
00:56:24,249 --> 00:56:28,378
Lee ran around between the models
and shouted at all.
638
00:56:28,461 --> 00:56:31,673
Simon, let's go. Go out there!
639
00:56:31,756 --> 00:56:38,388
He ran around all the time.
Arranged details and stressed around.
640
00:56:38,471 --> 00:56:41,725
Everyone is ready.
641
00:56:41,808 --> 00:56:46,229
- Is Russell ready?
- Yes.
642
00:56:46,313 --> 00:56:51,318
One of the models was delayed and
He said, "Pour with her. We're driving."
643
00:56:51,401 --> 00:56:55,447
He said, "Go ahead."
He drove me up.
644
00:56:55,530 --> 00:56:58,992
I came out on the catwalk and ...
645
00:57:06,333 --> 00:57:12,672
It was the first time,
the collection permeated all-
646
00:57:12,756 --> 00:57:17,636
- from the energy of the room
to the effect it had on people.
647
00:57:17,719 --> 00:57:24,309
Anxiety, anger and fear
was a red thread throughout the show.
648
00:57:24,392 --> 00:57:27,604
We were overwhelmed.
649
00:57:27,687 --> 00:57:31,775
They did not look like models, but expensive-
650
00:57:31,858 --> 00:57:35,362
-with big hair and animal makeup.
651
00:57:35,445 --> 00:57:38,990
It was ... It was intense.
652
00:57:40,909 --> 00:57:47,249
Some students were broken through
barriers and overturned fire.
653
00:57:47,332 --> 00:57:50,168
Then there was a fire.
654
00:57:50,252 --> 00:57:55,549
There were some car loads,
as we had not emptied of gasoline.
655
00:57:55,632 --> 00:58:01,137
The car broke on fire. It says
a burning car on the catwalk.
656
00:58:01,221 --> 00:58:04,057
Everyone thought,
that it was part of the show.
657
00:58:04,140 --> 00:58:07,769
"You may just dare to
to pick up fire extinguishers! "
658
00:58:07,853 --> 00:58:11,940
"Send models on the catwalk!"
659
00:58:12,023 --> 00:58:15,402
If it did not end so well-
660
00:58:15,485 --> 00:58:20,574
Had it been?
with fashion writers and models.
661
00:58:21,575 --> 00:58:28,123
It was typical of the wonderful,
crazy and genius Lee.
662
00:58:44,097 --> 00:58:49,019
My privacy and my work
are closely connected to each other.
663
00:58:49,102 --> 00:58:53,481
With my shows
Can I express my feelings.
664
00:58:53,565 --> 00:58:56,902
Have you moved from London
and to Paris?
665
00:58:56,985 --> 00:59:00,739
I live both places.
Half a year in every city.
666
00:59:00,822 --> 00:59:05,577
My dog lives in London,
and I miss him.
667
00:59:11,958 --> 00:59:16,046
The journey between the cities
to accommodate both companies-
668
00:59:16,129 --> 00:59:19,549
-very very worn-
669
00:59:19,633 --> 00:59:24,513
- but he did it
and his shows were amazing.
670
00:59:27,474 --> 00:59:30,644
The pressure was enormous at the time.
671
00:59:30,727 --> 00:59:35,607
He had his own brand
plus ready-to-wear and haute couture.
672
00:59:35,690 --> 00:59:38,485
One could feel it on him.
673
00:59:38,568 --> 00:59:42,113
LVMH's favorite designer was Dior.
674
00:59:42,197 --> 00:59:47,744
Lee felt they compared him
with Galliano.
675
00:59:47,827 --> 00:59:50,580
He found out-
676
00:59:50,664 --> 00:59:57,337
- John had four times bigger
budget to create its collection.
677
00:59:57,420 --> 01:00:03,969
We loved McQueen.
Givenchy was like a town brother.
678
01:00:04,052 --> 01:00:09,724
We knew,
that our time there did not last forever.
679
01:00:09,808 --> 01:00:15,188
When we arrived in Paris,
was read clothes very rigid.
680
01:00:15,272 --> 01:00:21,069
I think he discovered
a soft side in Paris.
681
01:00:21,152 --> 01:00:24,739
We took it to London with us.
682
01:00:26,783 --> 01:00:30,537
Within No. 13 I remember,
that he was happy
683
01:00:30,620 --> 01:00:35,709
Lee had a clear vision of,
what he wanted.
684
01:00:35,792 --> 01:00:39,838
We went from the meeting and were amazed
over the clear vision.
685
01:00:39,921 --> 01:00:46,678
He had colors and shapes.
He worked harmoniously.
686
01:00:48,054 --> 01:00:52,058
It was my first show with Lee.
He liked robots.
687
01:00:52,142 --> 01:00:57,063
Lee talked about robots and a model,
and we just thought:
688
01:00:57,147 --> 01:01:01,318
"Oh no.
Do not bounce again. Frankly."
689
01:01:01,401 --> 01:01:04,779
We hoped he would drop it.
690
01:01:04,863 --> 01:01:11,786
The evening before the show came the robot,
but we had no dress.
691
01:01:11,870 --> 01:01:16,958
I told the tailor that we should
use a dress for the final.
692
01:01:17,042 --> 01:01:23,757
Someone found a lot of bulls,
And he said, "There we have it."
693
01:01:31,348 --> 01:01:35,685
They said it was impossible.
He said it went.
694
01:01:35,769 --> 01:01:39,981
It was Lee. He got people
to make it impossible.
695
01:01:40,065 --> 01:01:45,737
Some technicians steered the robots.
Lee wanted more of it.
696
01:01:45,820 --> 01:01:48,990
Lee began to instruct them-
697
01:01:49,074 --> 01:01:55,121
- and it became amazing
choreography where she turned around.
698
01:01:55,205 --> 01:01:59,042
There stood Shalom Harlow
with two robots-
699
01:01:59,125 --> 01:02:02,420
-It seemed to be able to think myself.
700
01:02:21,439 --> 01:02:26,152
It was the first time I stayed
impressed by my own show.
701
01:02:26,236 --> 01:02:32,409
What person / machine ... I have
never before cried to my shows.
702
01:03:04,191 --> 01:03:06,902
Lee lived his dream.
703
01:03:06,985 --> 01:03:12,073
He would never give up, even though
was hard. You only get one chance.
704
01:03:14,117 --> 01:03:18,622
The first time i realized
that Lee was famous-
705
01:03:18,705 --> 01:03:23,126
- when a stranger came
and asked for his autograph.
706
01:03:23,210 --> 01:03:27,255
He thought it was scary.
707
01:03:27,339 --> 01:03:34,137
Something had happened.
He was known outside the fashion world.
708
01:03:34,930 --> 01:03:38,725
That with the fame
and that people ran after him-
709
01:03:38,808 --> 01:03:42,395
-not what was important.
710
01:03:42,479 --> 01:03:45,565
"The important thing is what I'm doing."
711
01:03:45,649 --> 01:03:51,613
I wish he had gotten
a normal life and been self-
712
01:03:51,696 --> 01:03:55,825
-and that pressure at such a young age.
713
01:03:55,909 --> 01:04:00,121
I knew Lee,
since he had nothing.
714
01:04:00,205 --> 01:04:04,876
I saw him becoming a millionaire
and a little more.
715
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:09,381
The more money he got,
the more unhappy he worked.
716
01:04:09,464 --> 01:04:13,385
With the money came the drugs.
That was sad.
717
01:04:15,470 --> 01:04:18,932
Cocaine made me see some things-
718
01:04:19,015 --> 01:04:22,727
-In a very clear and honest light.
719
01:04:22,811 --> 01:04:28,024
When it was worst,
there was way too much work.
720
01:04:28,108 --> 01:04:32,946
It had to go wrong.
It's not a good substance.
721
01:04:33,655 --> 01:04:36,658
I can not change myself.
722
01:04:37,909 --> 01:04:44,332
It got bad,
when the pressure on him became too big.
723
01:04:44,416 --> 01:04:50,463
He unfortunately handled it
a way that was not good for him.
724
01:04:50,547 --> 01:04:55,594
There was aggression
and paranoia with.
725
01:04:55,677 --> 01:05:00,223
He was still good,
but was another person.
726
01:05:00,307 --> 01:05:05,562
I make ten collections a year.
It is hard.
727
01:05:05,645 --> 01:05:08,857
Givenchy came to me, not the other way round.
728
01:05:08,940 --> 01:05:14,321
I was angry when I said that I
should be fired. That was not true.
729
01:05:14,404 --> 01:05:17,365
You can run me.
I do what I want.
730
01:05:19,242 --> 01:05:25,624
Our relationship changed.
He had two sides.
731
01:05:25,707 --> 01:05:31,838
He could show up
and be in a good mood and laugh.
732
01:05:31,922 --> 01:05:36,051
Other times it was a devil,
that entered.
733
01:05:36,134 --> 01:05:39,387
He had his demons.
734
01:05:39,471 --> 01:05:46,478
The darkness created incredible creativity
and an ingenious artist.
735
01:05:48,980 --> 01:05:53,109
I had got tattooed
"McQueen" on his arm.
736
01:05:53,193 --> 01:05:58,114
When he saw that I had got it
drawn over, it was over.
737
01:05:58,198 --> 01:06:03,036
Lee was romantic as always
flirted with the idea of love.
738
01:06:03,119 --> 01:06:06,456
I do not think he saw it.
739
01:06:06,540 --> 01:06:09,668
He was in love with his work.
740
01:06:09,751 --> 01:06:13,255
He did not trust anyone.
741
01:06:13,338 --> 01:06:17,843
Was the girlfriend not there,
he suspected him for adultery.
742
01:06:17,926 --> 01:06:20,887
It was very difficult for him.
743
01:06:20,971 --> 01:06:27,018
Fashion is about attraction,
sexuality and to show who you are.
744
01:06:27,102 --> 01:06:30,438
You probably think I'm stupid-
745
01:06:30,522 --> 01:06:35,151
- and thick. I would like to weigh less.
That's the way it is.
746
01:06:36,862 --> 01:06:41,908
When I got a liposuction, I stood
the worst in the fashion industry.
747
01:06:41,992 --> 01:06:45,370
It was a crazy period.
748
01:06:45,453 --> 01:06:49,666
He said it was a mistake
to change its appearance.
749
01:06:49,749 --> 01:06:52,502
"I lost myself."
750
01:06:52,586 --> 01:06:57,924
There was ten years between Lee McQueen,
who was employed by me-
751
01:06:58,008 --> 01:07:02,179
- to the slim figure
dressed in Comme des Garçons.
752
01:07:02,262 --> 01:07:08,602
A figure he would not be.
Persona Alexander McQueen.
753
01:07:12,314 --> 01:07:19,321
McQueen works as a family.
The community must be there.
754
01:07:21,072 --> 01:07:25,118
I've probably been
an even tougher boss.
755
01:07:25,202 --> 01:07:31,583
I check all the small details
in all departments.
756
01:07:35,462 --> 01:07:38,423
The time is 6.
757
01:07:38,507 --> 01:07:41,510
Do not mind her.
758
01:07:43,512 --> 01:07:46,765
She's just gonna do it
a couple of hours more.
759
01:07:48,850 --> 01:07:53,188
It was not simple
no fun anymore.
760
01:07:53,271 --> 01:08:00,237
- I do not like it.
- I'll take it off.
761
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,031
I have never worked better.
762
01:08:03,114 --> 01:08:07,702
There were dark times with him and times,
which was bright.
763
01:08:07,786 --> 01:08:13,875
We chose to be there ourselves.
Now and then we chose not to be there.
764
01:08:13,959 --> 01:08:19,631
I broke up once upon Givenchy
because of the workload.
765
01:08:19,714 --> 01:08:22,717
It went beyond our health.
766
01:08:22,801 --> 01:08:28,515
I became an adult in the company.
I was no longer a little boy.
767
01:08:28,598 --> 01:08:32,435
The older I stayed,
the more it grew up to me-
768
01:08:32,519 --> 01:08:37,399
- That situation
felt claustrophobic.
769
01:08:37,482 --> 01:08:40,110
Sebastian!
770
01:08:40,193 --> 01:08:43,113
Come on, your ugly bitch.
771
01:08:44,823 --> 01:08:48,493
You should give everything to McQueen.
772
01:08:48,577 --> 01:08:54,499
One should fit his dogs,
work many hours at any time.
773
01:08:54,583 --> 01:08:58,795
This weekend you had to work
or be with Lee.
774
01:08:58,879 --> 01:09:01,756
We went on holiday together.
775
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:05,135
I can forge his signature.
776
01:09:05,218 --> 01:09:11,516
I felt confined,
even though I loved what I was doing.
777
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:16,771
I tried to talk to him,
But it did not go so well.
778
01:09:16,855 --> 01:09:23,486
When I wanted to stop, he said:
"There is no way back."
779
01:09:24,696 --> 01:09:30,952
When I traveled,
it was really sad.
780
01:09:31,036 --> 01:09:33,538
None...
781
01:09:33,622 --> 01:09:37,667
Nobody came and ...
782
01:09:38,543 --> 01:09:42,714
After all that,
I had put it in ...
783
01:09:49,554 --> 01:09:54,059
Unfortunately, Lee took things
very personal-
784
01:09:54,142 --> 01:09:59,564
- without thinking
on the other's experiences or needs.
785
01:09:59,648 --> 01:10:04,361
He took it personally when someone
stopped. He felt betrayed.
786
01:10:07,614 --> 01:10:13,537
There have been major changes
in the company. People have stopped.
787
01:10:13,620 --> 01:10:17,082
Everything feels a bit uncertain.
788
01:10:17,165 --> 01:10:21,753
You go through life and try
to get to know himself-
789
01:10:21,836 --> 01:10:27,217
- and understand
why you make the mistakes you make.
790
01:10:29,886 --> 01:10:36,601
Many in the fashion industry suffer from
anxiety, panic attacks and depression.
791
01:10:36,685 --> 01:10:42,941
The industry provides nutrition to the ego.
It has a negative effect.
792
01:10:43,024 --> 01:10:47,571
The idea of Voss was a padded cell.
793
01:10:47,654 --> 01:10:53,827
You lose yourself and it will be
a darkness that holds one as a hostage.
794
01:10:54,995 --> 01:10:59,082
When Lee was, as he was,
an idea was not enough.
795
01:10:59,165 --> 01:11:05,338
There should be a box in the middle
like a theatrical climax.
796
01:11:05,422 --> 01:11:11,136
When he explained to me,
he did not see me in my eyes.
797
01:11:11,219 --> 01:11:17,434
"It's about death, beauty
and rebirth. It will be beautiful."
798
01:11:17,517 --> 01:11:20,395
I expected non-
799
01:11:20,478 --> 01:11:25,275
that he would restore
Joel-Peter Witkin's picture.
800
01:11:25,358 --> 01:11:31,031
When I gathered at Witkin, I went
through a gloomy phase of six-
801
01:11:31,114 --> 01:11:34,034
-to get to know myself
802
01:11:34,117 --> 01:11:38,872
It is quite macabre.
How should I do that?
803
01:11:38,955 --> 01:11:45,962
I seriously said that I
probably should do it for the art.
804
01:11:46,463 --> 01:11:53,386
He looked at me and said,
"We are all well."
805
01:11:53,470 --> 01:11:59,809
The stage was Kubricks' space trip
in 2001 "meets mental hospital.
806
01:11:59,893 --> 01:12:06,316
There was a two-way mirror.
When the fashion people came and sat down
807
01:12:06,399 --> 01:12:09,152
they themselves in the mirror.
808
01:12:09,236 --> 01:12:15,075
The music began with a heartbeat,
which went faster and faster.
809
01:12:15,158 --> 01:12:20,622
We did not really know what
should happen. The audience did not think so.
810
01:12:20,705 --> 01:12:25,627
Fashion is a big bubble.
Now and then I want to blow it up.
811
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:39,015
As it gets started, we can look inside.
The models can not see the audience.
812
01:12:39,099 --> 01:12:43,270
It seemed to be voyeurism.
813
01:12:43,353 --> 01:12:48,525
The bandage about the heads of the models
gave a sense of disease-
814
01:12:48,608 --> 01:12:51,403
and madness
815
01:12:55,240 --> 01:13:00,787
Once I had just been operated,
and Lee came to visit.
816
01:13:00,871 --> 01:13:05,292
When he saw me in bandage, he said:
817
01:13:05,375 --> 01:13:08,169
"Where is it just fat?"
818
01:13:08,253 --> 01:13:11,089
He sucked himself like a mushroom-
819
01:13:11,173 --> 01:13:15,468
- and so beautiful in the ugly
as with my bandage.
820
01:13:40,994 --> 01:13:45,498
Life is not perfect.
We do not look like all models.
821
01:13:45,582 --> 01:13:49,502
But there is beauty in the viewer's eyes.
822
01:14:02,182 --> 01:14:07,896
The last picture was of a big one
woman with a lot of night warriors.
823
01:14:07,979 --> 01:14:12,901
It sounds like a joke. You can do well
See that humorous in it.
824
01:14:12,984 --> 01:14:17,739
Thick ladies and night warriors.
Is it the worst nightmare of fashion?
825
01:14:22,369 --> 01:14:27,624
If I look at collections,
and what am I jealous of?
826
01:14:27,707 --> 01:14:30,919
If collections are amazing?
827
01:14:32,879 --> 01:14:36,633
Tom was a god in the industry.
828
01:14:36,716 --> 01:14:41,221
Although Lee was a rebel
and completely different-
829
01:14:41,304 --> 01:14:44,057
did he probably flatter and move over
830
01:14:44,140 --> 01:14:48,645
- that one like Tom Ford
was interested in him.
831
01:14:48,728 --> 01:14:53,567
He was smart enough to realize,
that he needed the money.
832
01:14:53,650 --> 01:14:58,238
It's expensive to run this company.
833
01:14:58,321 --> 01:15:01,658
McQueen has never gone bankrupt.
834
01:15:01,741 --> 01:15:05,704
I want success
and be self-employed.
835
01:15:06,329 --> 01:15:10,458
I can see the McQueen light
at the end of the tunnel.
836
01:15:10,542 --> 01:15:15,881
The best thing about Lee is that he
is poetry ... he protests enough.
837
01:15:15,964 --> 01:15:19,843
... poetry and trade in one.
He is very practical.
838
01:15:19,926 --> 01:15:26,099
He understands that there must be beautiful,
marketable products.
839
01:15:27,684 --> 01:15:34,482
Gucci was clever. They offered him something,
he could not say no to:
840
01:15:34,566 --> 01:15:40,071
They took over the firm,
but allowed him to retain 50 percent.
841
01:15:40,155 --> 01:15:44,743
There were secret meetings,
so LVMH did not hear about it.
842
01:15:44,826 --> 01:15:49,206
They did not know anything,
before it was a reality.
843
01:15:49,706 --> 01:15:54,878
I kept trembling over Tom,
that it was my project.
844
01:15:54,961 --> 01:15:58,965
- Do you have to design what you want?
- 100 percent.
845
01:15:59,049 --> 01:16:01,885
I wanted an investor-
846
01:16:01,968 --> 01:16:08,308
- and then Gucci reported.
The rest is history.
847
01:16:12,020 --> 01:16:14,940
Au revoir, Givenchy!
848
01:16:27,369 --> 01:16:31,373
FAIRLIGHT, EAST SUSSEX
849
01:16:51,393 --> 01:16:56,523
I'm drawn by the ocean.
I am born in the sign of the fish.
850
01:16:56,606 --> 01:17:02,821
When it rains or snows,
and you hear the waves
851
01:17:02,904 --> 01:17:07,158
It is very melancholy,
but romantic.
852
01:17:08,660 --> 01:17:12,330
Sometimes you just have to
have a break.
853
01:17:12,414 --> 01:17:19,004
Get away from it all and not
think of business or shows-
854
01:17:19,087 --> 01:17:21,923
-and just keep a break.
855
01:17:26,678 --> 01:17:29,639
I must have nature around me.
856
01:17:29,723 --> 01:17:33,852
It is older than the house.
It's over 400 years old.
857
01:17:33,935 --> 01:17:39,232
It's an elm,
and it is illuminated at night.
858
01:17:41,026 --> 01:17:44,362
It's good inspiration.
859
01:17:50,702 --> 01:17:53,455
My friends are coming to visit.
860
01:17:53,538 --> 01:17:58,210
We turn up in the fireplace,
watching movies and listening to music.
861
01:17:58,293 --> 01:18:01,254
It's relaxing.
862
01:18:07,969 --> 01:18:13,225
He was very much together
with my mother in that house.
863
01:18:13,308 --> 01:18:18,813
I am grateful for that time.
We looked more to each other.
864
01:18:18,897 --> 01:18:21,775
We did things together.
865
01:18:21,858 --> 01:18:27,822
My family gives me stability.
Fashion can be a superficial industry.
866
01:18:29,032 --> 01:18:32,410
When I started,
there was nothing like that.
867
01:18:32,494 --> 01:18:36,414
Closer we will not
on haute couture in England.
868
01:18:36,498 --> 01:18:40,377
Everyone here is a student,
so we train them-
869
01:18:40,460 --> 01:18:44,297
- and leave them
get the foot inside the industry.
870
01:18:44,381 --> 01:18:49,970
Lee knew,
that I have always loved drawing.
871
01:18:50,053 --> 01:18:53,932
The years went by.
I worked at a dump.
872
01:18:54,015 --> 01:18:58,937
Lee would use a textile designer
for men's clothes and staff me.
873
01:18:59,020 --> 01:19:01,940
Lee was glad I was there.
874
01:19:02,023 --> 01:19:04,901
Primarily on a creative level-
875
01:19:04,985 --> 01:19:11,825
- but also to have one,
which reminded him of childhood.
876
01:19:15,412 --> 01:19:19,124
I had a hard period of anxiety.
877
01:19:19,207 --> 01:19:25,589
It was hard to do things,
I did not want for Givenchy-
878
01:19:25,672 --> 01:19:32,512
- but I had accepted that it was
the life to which I was born.
879
01:19:40,937 --> 01:19:43,773
He controlled the mood.
880
01:19:43,857 --> 01:19:47,861
For the most part he was lovely
to be together with.
881
01:19:47,944 --> 01:19:54,326
He was the bounty and the drones
added all the queen's signals.
882
01:19:54,409 --> 01:20:00,832
It could be felt. He had one
childish way to make fun with everyone.
883
01:20:00,916 --> 01:20:05,712
It made an easy one
and nice working atmosphere.
884
01:20:05,795 --> 01:20:10,675
It always happened something creative.
It excited everyone.
885
01:20:12,093 --> 01:20:16,223
I speak very clearly with that,
I create.
886
01:20:16,306 --> 01:20:20,644
All I do is personal,
even Kate Moss as a hologram.
887
01:20:20,727 --> 01:20:25,273
It's essential for a while,
where I am one with heaven and earth.
888
01:20:25,357 --> 01:20:29,069
Do you want to get to know me,
do you have to look at my works?
889
01:20:46,211 --> 01:20:51,049
- What is fashion for you?
- My life.
890
01:20:53,051 --> 01:20:56,054
PERSONALITY DOOR
ONLY 48 YEARS OLD
891
01:20:56,137 --> 01:21:00,559
Issie died proudly and had achieved
its wildest dreams.
892
01:21:00,642 --> 01:21:05,355
Issie's death was a shock to many,
also for Alexander.
893
01:21:05,438 --> 01:21:08,233
A huge shock.
894
01:21:27,586 --> 01:21:32,674
He participated in Issie's funeral.
I have never seen anyone so broken.
895
01:21:32,757 --> 01:21:36,928
I did not recognize him.
He sat right behind me.
896
01:21:37,012 --> 01:21:42,267
There was a man in a kilt
and traditional Scottish hat.
897
01:21:42,350 --> 01:21:45,187
"You goodest, that's McQueen."
898
01:21:45,270 --> 01:21:51,735
His facial expressions were
unforgettable. I felt with him.
899
01:21:51,818 --> 01:21:56,448
One could see his pain.
900
01:21:56,531 --> 01:22:02,287
I could see love. It was
true love between the two.
901
01:22:05,123 --> 01:22:10,212
Issie was something
between a sister and a mother.
902
01:22:10,295 --> 01:22:17,219
She was in between,
and Lee loved Issie.
903
01:22:17,302 --> 01:22:21,765
Issie and McQueen
was united with a sorrow.
904
01:22:21,848 --> 01:22:27,979
Alexander had been abused.
It had ruined his innocence.
905
01:22:28,063 --> 01:22:33,777
Issie was struck by sorrow when she was
five years and her brother died.
906
01:22:33,860 --> 01:22:38,490
It was not Issie's fault,
but she felt responsible.
907
01:22:38,573 --> 01:22:43,703
There was a destructive side,
which she could not get rid of.
908
01:22:43,787 --> 01:22:48,333
It grew bigger
and more and more serious.
909
01:22:48,416 --> 01:22:54,297
I do not take drugs, but medicine.
I have to reassure myself with pills.
910
01:22:54,381 --> 01:22:59,094
The way to her self-destruction
was clear.
911
01:22:59,177 --> 01:23:03,181
Issie thought she would not
stay on forever.
912
01:23:03,265 --> 01:23:07,310
She could not look as old.
Fashion is about youth.
913
01:23:07,394 --> 01:23:12,691
To discover someone is like being a mother.
The milk is released.
914
01:23:14,025 --> 01:23:19,698
Issie planned his death
and would say goodbye to McQueen.
915
01:23:20,448 --> 01:23:23,326
She planned a weekend-
916
01:23:23,410 --> 01:23:27,789
- and had trouble
with a nice dinner.
917
01:23:28,331 --> 01:23:33,253
Alexander was exhausted,
when he came and stayed in his room.
918
01:23:34,004 --> 01:23:37,841
He could not give her it,
she needed.
919
01:23:37,924 --> 01:23:42,095
With them they met and left farewell.
920
01:23:42,179 --> 01:23:45,891
Big hug and kiss.
"See you in the next world."
921
01:23:45,974 --> 01:23:50,478
When you are ill you are very alone.
922
01:23:50,562 --> 01:23:57,360
Issie had ovarian cancer
and did not want kemo.
923
01:23:58,737 --> 01:24:04,284
Issie's last words were:
"Do you remember when I was a sunbeam?"
924
01:24:04,367 --> 01:24:07,787
"You will always be a sunbeam."
925
01:24:10,749 --> 01:24:13,960
McQueen calls the show
"La Dame Bleue" -
926
01:24:14,044 --> 01:24:19,758
- and dedicates it to deceased friend
and mentor Isabella Blow.
927
01:24:19,841 --> 01:24:25,013
One saw her in the clothes
and felt the smell of her perfume.
928
01:24:25,096 --> 01:24:31,436
Her children, Alexander and Philip,
worked frantically behind the scene.
929
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,314
Issie created a bond between them.
930
01:24:34,397 --> 01:24:39,736
Isabella created Alexander and me
from nothing-
931
01:24:39,819 --> 01:24:45,450
- with a conviction,
which we will never again experience.
932
01:24:45,534 --> 01:24:51,081
Her faith in one did one
to the person you are.
933
01:25:09,808 --> 01:25:16,898
When you sat down, saw the scenography
and heard the music, you were caught.
934
01:25:16,982 --> 01:25:21,236
One could see her in his design-
935
01:25:21,319 --> 01:25:24,364
- and of course in Philips hats.
936
01:25:27,659 --> 01:25:32,497
It created a mythical figure-
937
01:25:32,581 --> 01:25:36,751
- which was Issie's presence
at the show.
938
01:25:44,217 --> 01:25:49,973
It was emotional. I cried
incessantly. It hit me out.
939
01:25:51,683 --> 01:25:54,644
Worry is sorrow. You have to go through it.
940
01:25:59,566 --> 01:26:06,031
When they came out, you saw how young
they were and that they had lost a friend.
941
01:26:06,114 --> 01:26:09,284
They had loved her high.
942
01:26:14,789 --> 01:26:18,460
It affected Lee vehemently.
943
01:26:18,543 --> 01:26:21,922
After Issie went away-
944
01:26:22,005 --> 01:26:25,967
If it's a dark time for him.
945
01:26:30,013 --> 01:26:33,934
I'm not angry with myself.
I am angry with the world.
946
01:26:34,017 --> 01:26:40,023
I can not think of anything else.
Everything just gets darker and darker.
947
01:26:42,567 --> 01:26:46,655
We saw television in the evening.
948
01:26:46,738 --> 01:26:51,660
Lee was in the news with his show
"The Horn of Plenty".
949
01:26:52,536 --> 01:26:56,957
My father called me and said-
950
01:26:57,040 --> 01:27:00,043
That my insane friend was on television.
951
01:27:00,126 --> 01:27:03,922
When my dad saw the collection,
he said:
952
01:27:04,005 --> 01:27:07,300
"I think,
that your friend is insanely serious. "
953
01:27:09,594 --> 01:27:15,851
"The Horn of Plenty"
shows fashion world-
954
01:27:15,934 --> 01:27:18,520
- like a pile of waste.
955
01:27:24,067 --> 01:27:30,740
In the years we were apart,
We would have both thought so much.
956
01:27:31,408 --> 01:27:34,244
I called him:
957
01:27:34,327 --> 01:27:38,915
"Hi, that's Lee."
"Hi, it's Sebastian."
958
01:27:38,999 --> 01:27:43,628
"Where the hell have you been for so long,
your asshole? "
959
01:27:43,712 --> 01:27:50,260
We started again as the brothers,
we had been.
960
01:27:50,343 --> 01:27:55,140
I took the ferry to Ibiza
and drove out to his house.
961
01:27:55,223 --> 01:27:59,603
When he opened, I was shaken-
962
01:27:59,686 --> 01:28:04,524
- for the person who closed up,
was a completely different one.
963
01:28:04,608 --> 01:28:10,530
He was thin
and so fragile and pale.
964
01:28:10,614 --> 01:28:16,703
When I gave him a hug,
could I feel the change-
965
01:28:16,786 --> 01:28:20,582
because he was just skins and legs.
966
01:28:20,665 --> 01:28:25,587
There were hardly any muscles
or meat on the bones.
967
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:33,136
Lee had an idea for a show
with a metamorphosis.
968
01:28:33,220 --> 01:28:37,641
His face should be transformed
to a skull.
969
01:28:37,724 --> 01:28:43,480
Everything in his life had emerged
to that suffering.
970
01:28:43,563 --> 01:28:46,274
Lee was HIV positive.
971
01:28:46,358 --> 01:28:50,529
Even if it's not
is a death sentence in itself-
972
01:28:50,612 --> 01:28:54,407
- I think,
that he always had that in mind.
973
01:28:54,491 --> 01:29:00,872
There was a bad mood,
when he was depressed and depressed.
974
01:29:13,218 --> 01:29:17,138
Read problem was always after a show.
975
01:29:17,222 --> 01:29:24,354
He had worked so hard.
It was followed by a downturn.
976
01:29:26,189 --> 01:29:29,442
Then he started the next show.
977
01:29:30,777 --> 01:29:35,323
It was a show after the show.
I do not know how he did it.
978
01:29:39,911 --> 01:29:43,748
The pressure is quite big now-
979
01:29:43,832 --> 01:29:47,878
- because of the contract with Gucci.
980
01:29:48,795 --> 01:29:53,633
I make men's clothes and McQ.
981
01:29:53,717 --> 01:30:00,265
There are 14 collections a year
as with Givenchy. That's a lot.
982
01:30:06,730 --> 01:30:11,109
He was playing with the thought
just to travel away.
983
01:30:11,193 --> 01:30:15,155
But his name and reputation were at stake.
984
01:30:15,238 --> 01:30:19,201
He could not leave it,
he had built up.
985
01:30:25,165 --> 01:30:29,002
If I grow old
and must leave the company-
986
01:30:29,085 --> 01:30:32,881
- I burn it down to the ground.
Nobody is going to work there.
987
01:30:32,964 --> 01:30:38,970
You will not let anyone take over
McQueen's tradition or brand-
988
01:30:39,054 --> 01:30:41,890
-If you are not involved.
989
01:30:43,850 --> 01:30:47,729
I do not think. The...
990
01:30:47,812 --> 01:30:52,442
The concept behind my shows
is so personal.
991
01:30:52,526 --> 01:30:55,362
How would it be?
992
01:30:55,987 --> 01:31:01,368
I asked him to take a break.
He said I did not understand.
993
01:31:01,451 --> 01:31:06,206
"I am in charge of 50 people,
who will pay off loans. "
994
01:31:06,289 --> 01:31:09,084
"I can not just go."
995
01:31:10,544 --> 01:31:15,841
I always thought,
that there was so much sorrow in him.
996
01:31:15,924 --> 01:31:21,513
That was sad,
because he had so much success-
997
01:31:21,596 --> 01:31:24,140
It was terribly lonely.
998
01:31:24,224 --> 01:31:27,853
It can be very lonely.
999
01:31:29,145 --> 01:31:32,691
There is more in life than fashion.
1000
01:31:32,774 --> 01:31:36,736
I do not want to get stuck in that bubble.
1001
01:31:36,820 --> 01:31:41,992
I see how everyone else
goes home and closes off
1002
01:31:42,075 --> 01:31:46,079
- but I'm Alexander McQueen,
even if the door is closed.
1003
01:31:46,162 --> 01:31:48,832
I have to live with myself.
1004
01:31:48,915 --> 01:31:53,503
Have I had a bad day,
it's only my fault.
1005
01:32:01,803 --> 01:32:08,852
He behaved fine,
when he was with us.
1006
01:32:08,935 --> 01:32:14,107
But we knew he was not ...
1007
01:32:14,941 --> 01:32:17,485
He was not 100 percent.
1008
01:32:17,569 --> 01:32:23,950
He heard voices and said,
that they hunted him.
1009
01:32:24,034 --> 01:32:28,622
He often said:
"Paranoia destroys one."
1010
01:32:29,164 --> 01:32:34,794
I remember that I made a sketch
with many cameras.
1011
01:32:34,878 --> 01:32:37,756
The cameras could sit on robots.
1012
01:32:37,839 --> 01:32:44,179
The camera was close.
The audience would be monitored and shaken.
1013
01:32:44,262 --> 01:32:50,101
The idea of "Platon's Atlantis" is that
man returns to the sea.
1014
01:32:50,185 --> 01:32:53,772
I'm looking for something that does not exist.
1015
01:32:54,648 --> 01:32:57,317
It's an incredible place.
1016
01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:02,697
I can not imagine anything
in my imagination actually exist.
1017
01:33:02,781 --> 01:33:08,828
He loved swimming and diving
and being in an underwater world.
1018
01:33:08,912 --> 01:33:14,000
Far from everything, like being
back in the uterus and flow around.
1019
01:33:14,084 --> 01:33:17,963
The calm feeling you get from it.
1020
01:33:18,046 --> 01:33:22,008
"Platon's Atlantis"
arose in his head-
1021
01:33:22,092 --> 01:33:28,014
- with digital press,
experiments and pattern cutting.
1022
01:33:28,098 --> 01:33:30,976
The robots were in again.
1023
01:33:31,059 --> 01:33:35,564
He said he had made
his last collection.
1024
01:33:35,647 --> 01:33:41,820
He said he had had enough
and would kill himself.
1025
01:33:41,903 --> 01:33:45,115
"What do you mean?"
1026
01:33:45,198 --> 01:33:52,289
"I am tired of it all.
I just want it to end. "
1027
01:33:52,372 --> 01:33:58,503
"For my last show ...
Do you remember Voss? "
1028
01:33:58,587 --> 01:34:04,718
"I do the same,
but with a big plastic box. "
1029
01:34:04,801 --> 01:34:11,349
"When the show ends,
does it rise from the floor ...
1030
01:34:11,725 --> 01:34:18,148
... with me in,
and so I shoot myself. "
1031
01:34:21,610 --> 01:34:28,491
I did not know,
how to respond
1032
01:34:28,575 --> 01:34:31,578
He sounded very convinced.
1033
01:34:32,495 --> 01:34:37,000
My life has always been
full of ups and downs.
1034
01:34:37,792 --> 01:34:40,587
Stop. I would like to
1035
01:34:41,296 --> 01:34:44,090
He thought-
1036
01:34:44,174 --> 01:34:48,929
-and the whole fashion world was against him.
1037
01:34:49,012 --> 01:34:52,682
I said, "No, nobody is against you."
1038
01:34:52,766 --> 01:34:58,855
"But if you implement it,
do you want to hurt many people? "
1039
01:34:58,939 --> 01:35:04,694
"People come to your shows
to see your beauty and your talent. "
1040
01:35:04,778 --> 01:35:08,198
"To see you and what you create."
1041
01:35:25,340 --> 01:35:31,096
He was like a film director.
We should be like space creatures.
1042
01:35:31,179 --> 01:35:35,851
"You must have
a strong expression on the face. "
1043
01:35:35,934 --> 01:35:39,729
That show was like a bombing.
It should be over.
1044
01:35:39,813 --> 01:35:44,526
Everything is over.
We are born again and start over again.
1045
01:35:57,455 --> 01:36:02,460
I was afraid
and tried to avoid stumbling.
1046
01:36:02,544 --> 01:36:06,256
He should be proud of me-
1047
01:36:06,339 --> 01:36:11,011
- and beyond that he had
a whole host of models.
1048
01:36:16,850 --> 01:36:22,939
The pressure could be a fish fin
or dandruff from a snake-
1049
01:36:23,023 --> 01:36:29,070
- which was manipulated
and put together into a pattern-
1050
01:36:29,154 --> 01:36:31,948
-which became something unrecognizable.
1051
01:36:32,032 --> 01:36:37,037
It was the digital one
ages entered into fashion.
1052
01:36:37,120 --> 01:36:43,793
Although he was not happy,
was that his best collection.
1053
01:36:51,468 --> 01:36:55,764
He knew that he needed
for something revolutionary.
1054
01:36:55,847 --> 01:36:58,642
It is "Platon's Atlantis".
1055
01:37:09,402 --> 01:37:15,075
I did not join the show,
because my mother was in dialysis.
1056
01:37:15,158 --> 01:37:19,496
Lee would not look in the eyes,
that we would lose mom.
1057
01:37:19,579 --> 01:37:22,624
He had lost Issie-
1058
01:37:22,707 --> 01:37:28,296
- and could not really handle
that mother was ill.
1059
01:37:32,259 --> 01:37:38,723
I will tell my followers,
that my mother died yesterday. Rest in peace.
1060
01:37:38,807 --> 01:37:42,561
After my grandmother died ...
1061
01:37:43,895 --> 01:37:46,648
... he was so bad.
1062
01:37:46,731 --> 01:37:52,487
Lee was desperate.
We sat in the living room with father.
1063
01:37:52,571 --> 01:37:57,117
Lee was not himself.
1064
01:37:57,200 --> 01:38:02,122
Everyone was in grief about mother's death-
1065
01:38:02,205 --> 01:38:07,919
- but we were worried about Lee,
for mom and Lee ...
1066
01:38:09,421 --> 01:38:12,007
Lee, dear mother.
1067
01:38:12,090 --> 01:38:16,344
Loved Mom.
I love you so much-
1068
01:38:16,428 --> 01:38:22,726
and will always love you. Hug, Lee.
1069
01:38:22,809 --> 01:38:28,690
The last assignment he assigned me,
was designing the tombstone.
1070
01:38:28,773 --> 01:38:35,530
It should be with wings,
who embraced grandmother.
1071
01:38:36,281 --> 01:38:41,161
Initially, the hands rested
on the tombstone-
1072
01:38:41,244 --> 01:38:46,666
- but he saw,
that they pressed down.
1073
01:38:46,750 --> 01:38:50,795
He wants,
that they should lift and turn upwards.
1074
01:38:53,798 --> 01:38:57,844
I called Lee and ...
1075
01:38:58,553 --> 01:39:04,059
We talked about ... Mom's funeral.
1076
01:39:04,768 --> 01:39:08,355
It was the last time we talked together.
1077
01:39:09,272 --> 01:39:14,319
I may feel sad in my work,
but I'm not bitter.
1078
01:39:14,402 --> 01:39:21,034
I am grateful for everything in life,
but I know when to end.
1079
01:39:22,911 --> 01:39:28,041
That night I lay in bed and read.
1080
01:39:28,124 --> 01:39:34,840
I could feel something that touched
My head is very gentle and cautious.
1081
01:39:34,923 --> 01:39:39,427
I wondered who it was.
1082
01:39:39,511 --> 01:39:43,807
I knew someone had gone away
and said goodbye.
1083
01:39:43,890 --> 01:39:47,018
On February 11, 2010-
1084
01:39:47,102 --> 01:39:50,647
the evening before her mother's funeral-
1085
01:39:50,730 --> 01:39:56,194
- took Lee Alexander McQueen
his own life.
1086
01:40:02,742 --> 01:40:08,707
I was called by my sister
at 9.30 this morning.
1087
01:40:08,790 --> 01:40:12,252
That call ...
1088
01:40:13,295 --> 01:40:16,506
... changed ...
1089
01:40:17,048 --> 01:40:19,342
...everything.
1090
01:40:19,426 --> 01:40:26,558
I could not understand what they said,
because it was unreal.
1091
01:40:27,475 --> 01:40:34,649
Just the idea that Lee had been
all alone when he did it.
1092
01:40:34,733 --> 01:40:38,403
I saw it to me and it ...
1093
01:40:40,322 --> 01:40:46,620
It's not the best way ...
Suicide by hanging.
1094
01:40:46,703 --> 01:40:48,580
The...
1095
01:40:49,539 --> 01:40:55,212
I do not want to think what he has
thought and how lonely he has been.
1096
01:41:04,429 --> 01:41:09,434
The fashion world is shaken after the news
about Alexander McQueen's death.
1097
01:41:09,518 --> 01:41:13,104
British fashion's favorite is dead.
1098
01:41:13,188 --> 01:41:16,399
... in just 40 years is found dead.
1099
01:41:16,483 --> 01:41:20,362
Alexander McQueen is dead.
1100
01:41:20,445 --> 01:41:23,281
Alexander McQueen, 40 years old, is dead.
1101
01:41:23,365 --> 01:41:29,704
We have been reported,
that the English fashions are dead.
1102
01:41:29,788 --> 01:41:33,083
He often said:
1103
01:41:33,166 --> 01:41:38,046
"One day I come home
in a sleeping bag. "
1104
01:41:39,172 --> 01:41:42,050
The day when ...
1105
01:41:43,301 --> 01:41:46,763
You saw in the news that day-
1106
01:41:46,847 --> 01:41:51,184
that he left his house in a sleeping bag
1107
01:41:56,189 --> 01:42:01,653
I was with the kids
to Hamley's 100th Anniversary.
1108
01:42:01,736 --> 01:42:08,451
My partner picked me up and ...
It's not possible. I can not.
1109
01:42:08,535 --> 01:42:12,789
He said Lee was dead.
1110
01:42:12,873 --> 01:42:18,336
It was a shock and I was
very angry for a very long time.
1111
01:42:18,420 --> 01:42:23,633
For ... How could it end that?
1112
01:42:25,051 --> 01:42:27,262
I think...
1113
01:42:28,597 --> 01:42:33,351
Maybe ... After mother had gone away-
1114
01:42:33,435 --> 01:42:38,106
- did he feel that nothing ever
could make him happy again.
1115
01:42:38,190 --> 01:42:42,569
I think that at the moment he ...
1116
01:42:44,070 --> 01:42:47,866
... felt emptiness.
1117
01:42:48,533 --> 01:42:51,411
I miss him a lot.
1118
01:42:51,494 --> 01:42:55,123
I miss...
1119
01:42:55,207 --> 01:42:59,002
He could have gotten
so much happiness in his life-
1120
01:42:59,085 --> 01:43:02,422
- but it did not succeed
on the private level.
1121
01:43:02,506 --> 01:43:07,844
I would have liked him.
1122
01:43:11,681 --> 01:43:18,063
I am so glad that
that i met him
1123
01:43:19,814 --> 01:43:26,613
... and that I got permission
to become part of his story.
1124
01:43:26,696 --> 01:43:30,909
But I miss him. I wish-
1125
01:43:30,992 --> 01:43:35,121
that it had ended differently.
1126
01:43:49,803 --> 01:43:55,433
He just wanted to create beautiful things.
He was a sculptor.
1127
01:43:55,517 --> 01:43:58,520
It was from there that the silhouette came.
1128
01:43:59,437 --> 01:44:04,150
His clothes expressed,
that you can be feminine, but say:
1129
01:44:04,234 --> 01:44:07,946
"Do not try anything.
I'm a bitch. "
1130
01:44:10,490 --> 01:44:15,412
What I remember best,
is to see him work.
1131
01:44:15,495 --> 01:44:20,542
It was magical to me.
He was like a wizard.
1132
01:44:23,753 --> 01:44:29,551
A creation could be insane
and the next genius.
1133
01:44:30,510 --> 01:44:36,850
No one could create feelings
to a show like Lee McQueen.
1134
01:44:38,810 --> 01:44:43,231
For Lee, fashion was a way
to communicate with the world
1135
01:44:43,315 --> 01:44:50,113
He did not want focus
on its own but on the art.
1136
01:44:50,822 --> 01:44:55,785
High-Rise, Contrast,
incredibly fun and targeted.
1137
01:44:55,869 --> 01:45:00,498
He had a unique vision
and was a unique person.
1138
01:45:00,582 --> 01:45:05,378
His strong personality
was phenomenal.
1139
01:45:05,462 --> 01:45:11,092
You do not meet many who are.
They are not seen as often.
1140
01:45:15,138 --> 01:45:17,849
Lee founded Sarabande-
1141
01:45:17,933 --> 01:45:20,852
- which gives grants to
less-embedded designers.
1142
01:45:20,936 --> 01:45:25,774
Over a million so
"Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty".
1143
01:45:25,857 --> 01:45:28,985
There was record
both in New York and London.
1144
01:47:30,815 --> 01:47:33,805
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