Alexander McQueen was from the controversy of his early shows to the elegiac perfection of his last British fashion s most significant figure. His stellar career is a story of iconoclasm, ambition and visionary brilliance. With images from leading photographers such as Mario Testino and Corinne Day, Vogue On Alexander McQueen shows how his darkly beautiful designs, immaculate tailoring, slashed material and sculpted outlines realised his ambition: I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting so that, when I m dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen .