London Fashion Week plans tribute to McQueen
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Your support makes all the difference.The British Fashion Council will give London Fashion Week visitors an opportunity to submit their personal tributes to the recently deceased Alexander McQueen.
Notes with messages to and about the designer can be pinned onto a wall located at Somerset House, where London Fashion Week kicks off February 19. A selection of these notes will be given to his family after the event.
The news comes after French luxe company PPR announced it would continue running the Alexander McQueen fashion label. His fall/winter collection, due to be shown during Paris fashion week next month, was almost finished before his death last week, and will be presented to the trade March 9.
Even though McQueen had been showing his collections in Paris since the 1990s (starting 1996 with his appointment at Givenchy's creative director), the London-born designer had taken his first steps into the fashion industry in the UK capital, and the fashion world was expecting a tribute announcement from the BFC.
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