London's Victoria and Albert Museum today confirmed that next year they will present the exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a retrospective of the work of the late British fashion designer originally staged by the Costume Institute of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011. "Lee Alexander McQueen was brought up in London, studied here and based his globally successful McQueen fashion brand here," said Martin Roth, the Director of the V&A. "By staging the exhibition at the V&A it feels like we are bringing his work home."
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