Fashion’s most prestigious U.S. exhibition of 2011 will honor Alexander McQueen‘s stellar 19-year career and showcase over 100 pieces of work from the designer’s extravagant oeuvre at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Below is a breathtaking preview of what’s to be unveiled during this year’s Met Costume Institute Gala. The show will run May 4 to July 31.
Dress from the autumn/winter 2010 collection
Dress, Irere, from the spring/summer 2003 collection
Dress, Sarabande, from the spring/summer 2007 collection
Ensemble, It’s a Jungle Out There, from the autumn/winter 1997-8 collection
Dress, The Horn of Plenty, from the autumn/winter 2009 collection
Dress, from the autumn/winter 2010 collection
Dress, from the autumn/winter 2010-11 collection
Dress, from the Voss collection, spring/summer 2001
Dress, No. 13, from the spring/summer 1999 collection
Ensemble, Plato’s Atlantis, from the spring/summer 2010 collection
Ensemble, from the Voss collection, spring/summer 2001
