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Alexander McQueen Fall 1997 LFW: It’s a Jungle Out There

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Alexander McQueen Fall 1997 LFW: It’s a Jungle Out There runway

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A month before this show, McQueen’s first couture collection for Givenchy had been torn apart by the critics. He came home to London angry, and It’s a Jungle Out There was his answer.

The idea came from the Thomson’s gazelle, an animal that is hunted from the day it is born. That was how he felt about fashion: you are there, and then you are gone. The show was held at Borough Market, then a rough part of town, against a wall of corrugated iron shot full of holes, with wrecked cars and red light. Models stormed out like wild animals. Their hair was teased into manes and their eyes painted to look feline. The other reference was The Island of Dr. Moreau, the story of a scientist who turns animals into people.

The clothes were leather, fur, hides and acid-washed denim, all cut with his usual precision. Horns curved up from the shoulders of a jacket. Shaun Leane made a coiled neckpiece.

The night was chaos. The show started two hours late, gatecrashers pushed in, and one of the cars on the set caught fire. It carried on anyway. The reviews called it a triumphant return, and they were right. Savage, proud and full of fight.

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