Fashion is a big bubble, and sometimes I feel like popping it.' Alexander McQueen, 2009 This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010) invites you into the creative mind of one of Britain's most brilliant, daring and provocative designers. Accompanying the V&A's landmark exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, this comprehensive catalogue features 28 ground-breaking essays from expert fashion commentators and cultural scholars which examine the richness and complexity of McQueen's visionary fashion. The publication includes over 440 striking images, from intimate backstage portraits and editorials by leading fashion photographers to previously unpublished sketches and research boards from the McQueen archive. At the centre of the book is a Cabinet of Curiosities gatefold with a specially commissioned photo shoot that showcases McQueen's breath-taking attention to detail. The book closes with an encyclopaedic survey of all of McQueen's London collections, from his 1992 MA graduate collection to his final collection, posthumously presented in March 2010

• In search of the sublime / Andrew Bolton
• Clair Wilcox
• Christopher Breward
• Ghislaine Wood
• Louise Rytter
• Abraham Thomas
• Susannah Frankel
• Claire Wilcox
• Edwina Ehrman
• Helen Persson
• Anna Jackson
• Jonathan Faiers
• Catherine Spooner
• Eleanor Townsend
• Kirstin Kennedy
• Zoe Whitley
• No. 4: Viscera. Museum of the mind / Lisa Skogh
• Caroline Evans
• Clare Phillips
• Oriole Cullen
• Alexander Fury
• Janice Miller
• Bill Sherman
• Keith Lodwick
• Jane Pritchard
• Alistair O'Neill
• Jefferson Hack
• Susanna Brown
• Kate Bethune Edward Scissorhands / No. 1: A sense of place. Su(i)ture: tailoring & the fashion metropolis / Clan MacQueen / Central Saint Martins / Drawing a line / The early years / No. 2: Artistry. Plato's Atlantis: anatomy of a collection / Givenchy / Walking out / Refashioning Japan / Nature boy / No. 3: Sensibility. A gothic mind / Memento mori / Layers of meaning / Wasteland/Wonderland / The cabinet of curiosities
• Modelling McQueen: hard grace / Armouring the body / Crowning glory / No. 5: Spectacle. Show, and tell / Making-up / Ghosts / Coup de théatre / Dance / No. 6: Imagination. The shining and the chic / Fashion-able / Nightmares and dreams / Encyclopedia of collection /