Met’s Costume Institute to Celebrate Work of Alexander McQueen

Three cheers for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, which has chosen to devote its big spring exhibition to the extraordinary designs of the late Alexander McQueen. On view from May 4 through July 31 of next year, “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” will trace the designer’s career from his 1992 Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection (famously purchased by Isabella Blow) to his final designs (shown posthumously in March), along the way exploring how McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.