Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards , as well as the CFDAs International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide in 2010 at the age of forty.

OnFebruary 2010, pop musician and friend Lady Gaga performed an acoustic, jazz rendition of her hit single Telephone and segued into Dance in the Dark at the 2010 Brit Awards. During the performance, Gaga paid tribute to McQueen, by dedicating a song to him. She also commemorated McQueen after accepting her award for Best International Artist, Best International Female, and Best International Album. Gaga dedicated a song to him, titled Fashion of His Love, on the special edition of her third album, Born This Way.

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