London College of Fashion Stages Alexander McQueen Show

MCQUEEN’S MAQUILLAGE: In the wake of the hit “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, the London College of Fashion is staging a show that will showcase the inspiration and methods behind the often fantastical beauty looks created for the late Lee Alexander McQueen’s shows. “Warpaint: Alexander McQueen and Make-Up,” opens April 30 at the London College of Fashion’s Fashion Gallery Space. It will spotlight work by make-up artists including Sharon Dowsett, Val Garland, Peter Philips and Topolino, all of whom worked on McQueen’s shows. Curator Polona Dolzan, curatorial and project assistant, Fashion Space Gallery, and Ligaya Salazar, Fashion Space Gallery director, who commissioned the show, will explore 22 of McQueen’s beauty looks through themes such as “Amplified,” when models facial features were distorted; Deviated, which hones in on body makeup and Stripped, which highlights the designer’s more polished looks. LCF has also partnered with Holition, a London digital creative studio, to allow visitors to the exhibition to virtually try on two make-up looks from McQueen’s shows – the rain-drenched mascara from his spring 1998 show “Untitled” and the sinister, clown-like make-up in his fall 2001 show “What A Merry Go Round.” Dolzan commented that

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