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Alexander McQueen

1969 - 2010

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Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992 and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the Council of Fashion Designers of America International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen died by suicide in 2010 at the age of 40, at his home in Mayfair, London, shortly after the death of his mother. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander McQueen is the 43rd most popular designer (down from 36th in 2019), the 2,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,356th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Alexander McQueen ranks 43 out of 104. Before him are Jeanne Lanvin, Andokides painter, Salvatore Ferragamo, Giambattista Bodoni, Mariano Fortuny, and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.. After him are Margarete Steiff, Luigi Colani, Otl Aicher, Eiko Ishioka, Betsy Ross, and Adrian Frutiger.

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Among people born in 1969, Alexander McQueen ranks 79. Before him are Michael Kelly, Brian Laudrup, Robert Miles, Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, Christian Slater, and Oleg Salenko. After him are Julie Delpy, Thomas Vinterberg, Paulo Bento, Marjane Satrapi, Robert Sean Leonard, and Josh Holloway. Among people deceased in 2010, Alexander McQueen ranks 113. Before him are Dick Francis, Laurent Fignon, Martin Sandberger, Andrei Voznesensky, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Charlie Wilson. After him are Solomon Burke, Nasr Abu Zayd, Philippa Foot, Vladimir Ilyushin, Girija Prasad Koirala, and Alain Corneau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander McQueen ranks 2,021 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), Alan Walker (1997), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wallace Hartley (1878), Herbert Pitman (1877), and Andrew Parker Bowles (1939). After him are Alfred Fowler (1868), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), Lindsay Duncan (1950), Don Thompson (1933), and W. Ross Ashby (1903).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, Alexander McQueen ranks 8. Before him are William Morris (1834), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), Thomas Chippendale (1718), Jony Ive (1967), Josiah Wedgwood (1730), and Beau Brummell (1778). After him are John Baskerville (1706), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Laura Ashley (1925), Paul Smith (1946), Bill Moggridge (1943), and Yvonne Blake (1940).

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