Heartbreak, Hatred and Handbags, Courtesy of Marie Jacotey

Artist Marie Jacotey has long been drawing women – defiant, determined, often newly heartbroken but always resolutely survivalist women, who curse the day they met their ex-lovers even as they wish them dead – in her characteristic coloured-pencil style. So when McQ by Alexander McQueen approached her to create a series of pieces around the launch of their collection of bags, a grunge-inspired series of totes, satchels and cross-bodies in slouchy black leather and tough…