Inside the Alexander McQueen Documentary | Inside Fashion

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🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the latest episode of Inside Fashion, the co-directors of the new Alexander McQueen documentary discuss Lee’s inner circle, their approach to filmmaking, and tackling the controversies with BoF's editor-at-large Tim Blanks.

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0:00.0	People in the industry say, oh, I discovered Alexander McQueen.
0:04.0	Alexander McQueen discovered himself.
0:07.0	Nobody could create emotion like McQueen.
0:11.0	If you leave without emotion, then I'm not doing my job properly.
0:15.0	I don't want you to walk out feeling like you've just had Sunday lunch.
0:20.0	I want you to be repulsed or exhilarated.
0:23.6	As long as it's an emotion.
0:25.6	His garments, they're almost confessional.
0:28.6	In my work, everything I do is personal.
0:30.6	Even turning Kate Moss into a hologram.
0:32.6	I do 14 collections a year, so the pressure is immense.
0:36.6	It's close. Have all this slashing and sex and romance.
0:40.3	And the darkness created genius.
0:47.3	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion,
0:51.3	and welcome to the latest episode of Inside Fashion on the
0:55.3	BOF podcast. This week we've got an incredible conversation to share with you from the co-directors
1:01.5	of the new documentary on Alexander McQueen. Now here's a little tidbit for you. All of the voiceovers
1:08.7	of Alexander McQueen's voice that you just heard in that introduction
1:12.1	and which appear throughout this documentary come from the interviews and tapes of our very own
1:18.1	editor-at-large, Tim Blanks. So who better to sit down with Ian Bonnott and Peter Edigee,
1:24.7	the co-directors of the documentary, to talk to them about this new film.
1:29.3	As we'll learn, this was the very first documentary which had the participation of McQueen's
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