Gay Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen Commits Suicide

The gay fashion designer, Alexander McQueen has committed suicide just three years after one of his closest friends, Isabella Blow, who helped become the fashion star he was, killed herself.

Hugely distraught by her death, McQueen dedicated his 2008 Spring / Summer collection to her and sent out invites that pictured Blow in a McQueen dress and a Philip Treacy headdress, being taken by a horse-drawn carriage ascending to heaven.

Describing himself as the “pink sheep of the family“, McQueen left school at 16 before going on to work for Savile Row’s Anderson & Sheppard, he then went onto Gieves and Hawkes before going onto work in both Italy and Japan.

Enrolling, after much persuasion, to the Central Saint Martins fashion school in London, McQueen set up his own label on graduation which saw him produce the “bumster” trousers which had such a low waistband that very little was left to the imagination, something that got McQueen the tabloid headlines that made his label famous.

A source at the McQueen’s office confirmed that McQueen had died saying:

‘It is a tragic loss. We are not making a comment at this time out of respect for the McQueen family.’

There has now been an update to this article which can be read here: Alexander McQueen Found Hung In His Flat A Week After His Mother Died