The son of a London cab driver and a school teacher, Alexander "Lee" McQueen grew up in Stratford, East London. After dropping out of school with one O level at the age of 16, he perfected his tailoring skills on Savile Row, graduated with an MA in fashion design from Central Saint Martins and went on to embark on a career as one of the most innovative and talented designers of all time.
McQueen once said of London, "It's where my heart is, and where I get my inspiration." Join Kate Bethune, the senior researcher behind the hit show at the V&A Savage Beauty, for an insight into the "l'enfant terrible" and genius of British fashion.

Kate Bethune
Dr. Kate Bethune is an experienced researcher and curator with a developed expertise in fashion. Her projects include the major V&A exhibitions Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 (2012), Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s (2013) and the blockbuster exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2015).
Kate has experience in all aspects of the curatorial process, including contextual and object-based research, developing exhibitions from the curatorial brief to object installation, and writing, editing and proofing text for exhibition and publication outputs. She also has a developed knowledge of Collections Management best practice.