Editorial Department

Spring/Summer 2010. Photo: Francois Guillot.

Alexander McQueen, inarguably one of the most visionary designers of the past decade, who blessed us with his fearless, deliriously magnificent, and deeply poetic imaginings of fashion, has sadly passed away. Everywhere people are on about the reason why or how, but out of respect for the wealth of beauty and darkness he left, instead, a look at some of his career highlights:

Fall/Winter 2009. Photo: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters.

Fall/Winter 2009. Photo: Thibault Camus/NY Times.

Fall/Winter 2009. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters.

McQueen in costume after his Spring 2009 show. Photo: Marcio Madeira.

Spring/Summer 2009. Photo: Marcio Madeira.

Fall/Winter 2008. Photo: Style.com

Spring/Summer 2008.

Spring/Summer 2008. Photo: Olivier Claisse.

Fall/Winter 2007. Photo: Marcio Madeira.

Spring/Summer 2007. Photo: Jack Hill/The Times.

Spring/Summer 2007. Photo: Style.com

Fall/Winter 2006 "Widows of Culloden"

Fall/Winter 2006 Kate Moss Hologram

Spring/Summer 2006. Photo: Style.com

Fall/Winter 2005. Photo: Style.com

Spring/Summer 2005 "It's Only a Game." Photo: Jean Luce Hure/NY Times.

Spring/Summer 2005. Photo: Marcio Madeira.

Fall/Winter 2004. Photo: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters.

Spring/Summer 2004. Photo: Don Ashby.

Fall/Winter 2003. Photo: Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP.

Spring/Summer 2003. Photo: Style.com

Fall/Winter 2002. Photo: Style.com

Spring/Summer 2002. Photo: Style.com

Fall/Winter 2001. Photo: Simon Walker/The Times.

Fall/Winter 2001. Photo: Style.com

Spring/Summer 2001. Photo: JB Villareal/Style.com.

Fall/Winter 2000. Photo: Firstview.com.

Spring/Summer 2000. Photo: Louis Lanzano/AP.

Fall/Winter 1999. Photo: Michael Crabtree/Reuters.

Spring/Summer 1999. Photo: Laura Woolnough/PA.

Alexander McQueen, 2007.  Photo: Eric Ryan/Getty Images.

Alexander McQueen, you are dearly missed, and we hope that you rest in peace.

Love,

Flaunt

-Mui-Hai Chu