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Alexander McQueen's psychological state is a source of constant anxiety among fashion watchers. Like overanxious mothers, they watch every collection for signs. Is he bored with working for Givenchy in Paris? Is he overworking by designing his own label in London as well?
Generally, McQueen enters the fray only to exhort the gossipers to mind their own business.
However, staging last night's show in a mock-up lunatic asylum can only fan the flames.
In terms of both imagination and execution, McQueen is simply miles ahead of the pack.
As the lights dimmed for the opening of this, his own label show, the room-sized mirrored cube taking centre stage on the catwalk turned transparent, so that the audience could see the models and the padded white ceiling, but the models - courtesy of one...