“The irony of conspicuous consumption is well past its sell-by date,” wrote Susannah Frankel in AnOther Magazine S/S09. The subsequent season, Alexander Lee McQueen presented his final Autumn/Winter collection: The Horn of Plenty, a fantastically sumptuous parody on that very theme. “It’s a punked-up McQueen It girl parody of a certain ideal, of a woman who never existed in the first place,” proclaimed the man himself only a month before he sent women that combined Marlene…
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