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Alexander McQueen's fashion shows have the effect of making the average show look like a stroll through C&A ladieswear.
Instead of a catwalk, there is a vintage carousel rotating on a steeply tilted stage with the horses dressed in fetishistic latex.
Instead of pretty girls wearing nice clothes, there are women dressed as clowns with hair twisted into unicorns, wearing peacock feather mini skirts and officer's coats with Tahitian pearl epaulettes, and dragging gilt skeletons from their ankles.
And instead of flirting with the cameras, the models grab the carousel uprights and poledance.
However troubled his situation in Paris with erstwhile employer Givenchy, in London McQueen is king of the fashion hill. On Tuesday,...