Stella McCartney Remembers Alexander McQueen

Among the speakers at the press conference held earlier this week as the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled its stellar spring 2011 Costume Institute exhibition, “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty,” was fashion designer Stella McCartney, who co-chaired Monday evening’s gala benefit with Colin Firth and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. “I’m here as a friend, and to celebrate [McQueen’s] magnificent work, and how I proud I am,” she said. We took this video of McCartney recounting fond memories of the late designer, including her fateful introduction of “Lee” (as friends knew him) to Domenico de Sole, then president and CEO of PPR-owned Gucci Group.