FASHION
It started in the most unassuming of ways. The son of an East End taxi driver in London and the youngest of six children, Lee Alexander McQueen was wondering what he’d do when he left school. Then he saw on a TV show that they couldn’t get apprentices to work on Savile Row; and when his mother, Joyce, said “Why don’t you go and try?” the fashion history wheels were set in motion.
At 16 years of age, McQueen started his
