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Alexander McQueen turned down the job of designer at Yves Saint Laurent, one of fashion's top jobs.
When Serge Weinberg, chief executive of PPR, the parent company of McQueen's backers, the Gucci Group - so in effect McQueen's boss's boss - travelled to London to offer him the job, he didn't even show up to meet him.
This is very McQueen: he is his own man to a fault, and one learns to expect the unexpected.
The one predictable thing is that McQueen's fashion shows...