(Verkade has more than a few pieces in her closet.) Or sometimes, Tiffany Frank Gehry would rip apart his own work, reusing the fabric for the next collection. He came of age during a recession and was never a snob about materials, happily Tiffany Atlas drop earrings mussel shells plucked from the refuse of a local restaurant and straw beach mats spied during a holiday at the shore.And McQueen was neither dashing nor charismatic.
Like a host of today's designers, McQueen sketched clothes as a boy, was ridiculed for being gay, and was close to his mother, whose death, some who knew Return To Tiffany have said, led to his suicide. But McQueen also rose from a rough-and-tumble working-class background in a country where class is not merely demographics but rather identity. His father was a cabbie; the family lived in public housing.
"I was more struck by his personal appearance than by any clothes he brought to the magazine," says his friend Plum Sykes, who met McQueen when she was an Tiffany Atlas earring at British Vogue . (Later, he'd make her wedding gown--with a five-foot train and one of his signature corsets.) "I think he was wearing a lumberjack shirt with the most low-class kind of schlubby-looking jeans falling down with a long key chain. He was quite podgy. He was like your classic, unemployed yob."
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