Alexander McQueen Was a TAXI DRIVER'S Son

A London taxi driver's son who left school at sixteen would become fashion's most fearless genius.

Lee McQueen grew up working-class in the East End, the youngest of six children.

He learned his craft on Savile Row, hand-stitching suits for the rich at sixteen.

With no money and a rough accent, he was an outsider in a polished world.

His dark graduation show stunned London, and a famous stylist bought the whole collection.

His runways were theater: storms, fire, and a model sprayed by robots, beautiful and disturbing.

At twenty-seven he was running Givenchy, one of the great houses of Paris.

He won British Designer of the Year four times, the rebel they could not ignore.

But behind the genius was deep pain, and losing his mother broke something in him.

In 2010, at just forty, he was gone, leaving work the world still mourns.

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