McQueen

Showing to coincide with V&A Dundee's exhibition Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show, this screening will include a recorded introduction by one of the film’s directors, Peter Ettedgui.

Mirroring the savage beauty, maverick originality and vivacity of his design, McQueen is an intimate documentary showing Alexander Lee McQueen’s own personal and professional world. It celebrates a radical and mesmerising genius of profound influence and shows his rags-to-riches story as a modern-day fairy tale laced with the gothic. 

As a self-described “unremarkable” working-class boy from East London, McQueen went on to become a global one-man fashion brand and one of the most iconic artists of the century. He was a punk rebel, celebrated for overturning the silver-spoon world of Paris haute couture and ushering in the heady, revolutionary era of Cool Britannia, as well as provoking and subverting the fashion industry in ways that often caused controversy and scandal. 

Portraying his life from his debut collection through to the tragedy of his premature death, McQueen is a film that evokes Lee McQueen’s unique vision, originality and maverick sense of humour. The transformative impact of his personality and his work is captured in home movies, audio tapes and behind-the-scenes footage shot throughout his career. This material is stitched together with interviews from close family, friends and collaborators and cinematic original material that takes us on a journey into McQueen’s mind. His fears, dreams, obsessions, desires and nightmares are on screen for the audience to re-live along with the most memorable and iconic moments in his shows - like nothing the fashion world has ever seen before, or since. 

McQueen is showing during National Cinema Weekend, which means you can book your ticket for just £4.