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It's a Jungle Out There (Autumn/Winter 1997) is the tenth collection of the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and the first one released (under his brand) after his debut as the creative director of the French haute couture house Givenchy. The collection was presented at the Borough Market (Southwark, London) in February of 1997 and it featured a total of 75 looks inspired by Thomson's gazelle. Fur, silk, leather and acid-washed denim were used for the confection of the garments; additionally, some of the pieces featured antlers and taxidermy crocodile heads, human hair and iron jewellery. Acclaimed by the press, this collection restated McQueen as one of the leading figures in fashion after his highly-criticized debut with Givenchy. In 2011, several pieces were displayed in the
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| dbo:abstract | It's a Jungle Out There (Autumn/Winter 1997) is the tenth collection of the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and the first one released (under his brand) after his debut as the creative director of the French haute couture house Givenchy. The collection was presented at the Borough Market (Southwark, London) in February of 1997 and it featured a total of 75 looks inspired by Thomson's gazelle. Fur, silk, leather and acid-washed denim were used for the confection of the garments; additionally, some of the pieces featured antlers and taxidermy crocodile heads, human hair and iron jewellery. Acclaimed by the press, this collection restated McQueen as one of the leading figures in fashion after his highly-criticized debut with Givenchy. In 2011, several pieces were displayed in the exhibition dedicated to the designer's career, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and, in 2015, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. (en) |
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| dbp:author | A. McQueen (en) |
| dbp:text | The reason I did that [a collection all of white and gold] is that there had to be a major break between me and John Galliano; because John has got such a… you know, a vision of his own. For me to take over, I wanted it to be a complete break. And another reason why we did the whole collection in white and gold was, I mean, I feel… you know, I regretted it after, but I wanted to change the look so quickly, so fast, to break a complete look from Galliano to McQueen and, the reason we did it in white was that the people could choose the colours, so we gave them a blank page to work on and just the structure. But fashion people are not that intelligent, they want to see all the colours all the time. You know, if you tell them "I give you a blank page, choose your colour, chose your fabric," they are not intelligent to do that; I learned that fast. (en) The whole show's feeling was about Thomson's Gazelle; it is a poor little creature. Their markings are lovely; It has got these dark eyes, and the white belly with the black lines, tan and the horns in the back. But it is the food chain on Africa, as soon as it is born is dead; I mean you're lucky if it lasts a few months. And that's how I see human life, in the same way, you know, we all can be discarded quite easily and, nothing depicts it more honestly than the way animals are. And, I was trying also say the fragility of a designer's time in the press, you're there, you're gone; It's a jungle out there! (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | It's a Jungle Out There (Autumn/Winter 1997) is the tenth collection of the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and the first one released (under his brand) after his debut as the creative director of the French haute couture house Givenchy. The collection was presented at the Borough Market (Southwark, London) in February of 1997 and it featured a total of 75 looks inspired by Thomson's gazelle. Fur, silk, leather and acid-washed denim were used for the confection of the garments; additionally, some of the pieces featured antlers and taxidermy crocodile heads, human hair and iron jewellery. Acclaimed by the press, this collection restated McQueen as one of the leading figures in fashion after his highly-criticized debut with Givenchy. In 2011, several pieces were displayed in the (en) |
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