An exploratrion into the interdependence of the opposites "life and death", "happiness and sadness" and "good and evil" that inform the theme of transformation in the work of the late Fashion Designer Lee Alexander McQueen. [Extended Essay] / Niamh O Leary.
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TextPublication details: Limerick : Limerick Institute of Technology/Limerick School of Art and Design ; 2017Description: 42p. : ill (some col) . : 30cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - Thesis Fashion 06/17
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Thesis submitted for B.A. (Hons) in Fashion Design 2017
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The aim of this essay is to relate the development of the work of the late fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen to the interdependence of the opposite life and death, happiness and sadness and good and evil experienced in his life and expresssed through his art with particular reference to 15th Century Flemish Vanitas painting along with Gothic and Romantic motifs of death. It is agrued that McQueen acheived a mature vision of transformation that transcended death culture in his final show Plato's Atlantis. [Abstract]