{"id":61,"date":"2014-07-07T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/?p=61"},"modified":"2014-08-20T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:36:12","slug":"alexander-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/alexander-mcqueen\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander McQueen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/alexander-mcqueen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"size-large wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/files\/2014\/07\/Alexander-McQueen-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander McQueen\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/files\/2014\/07\/Alexander-McQueen-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/files\/2014\/07\/Alexander-McQueen-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/files\/2014\/07\/Alexander-McQueen-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/files\/2014\/07\/Alexander-McQueen-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/files\/2014\/07\/Alexander-McQueen.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Damian Cugley, used under a Creative Commons license<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once semester is over and the usual tide of emails and meetings subsides, I am able to focus for a while on some writing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I completed the draft of a chapter for the catalogue of the upcoming Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u2018Su{i}ture: McQueen, tailoring and the Fashion Metropolis\u2019 it examined McQueen\u2019s formative training as a bespoke tailor on Savile Row, his immersion in the psycho-geography of London and their effects on the startling presentations of his early couture shows.<\/p>\n<p>I structured the essay around a discussion of a bespoke McQueen\/Huntsman suit I had made for an exhibition I was co-curating in 2002. Thinking it all through took me back to the context of a millennial London that no longer exists, and forward to the much delayed completion of a longer book on the cultural history of the suit which I must finish in August, before the emails and meetings mount up again as the next semester starts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/content\/exhibitions\/exhibition-alexander-mcqueen-savage-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander McQueen Exhibition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria &amp; Albert Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once semester is over and the usual tide of emails and meetings subsides, I am able to focus for a while on some writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,13],"tags":[46,49,47],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-work","category-fashion","category-research","tag-alexander-mcqueen","tag-victoria-albert-museum","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/eca-principal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}