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Get your hands on the new Alexander McQueen book 'Working Process' by Nick Waplington.
When photographer Nick Waplington (known, but not famous, for his gritty reportages depicting life from Israel's West Bank to a Nottingham housing estate) was approached by Lee Alexander McQueen to document the making of his Horn of Plenty collection, he was flattered - but the timing was wrong.
"I got a call saying, 'Lee wants to see you' - we knew each other, and he knew my work - so I thought I'd go and see what he wanted," the photographer explains. "He knew I specialised in photo books and that I shot working-class families, industrial landscapes; I was living in Israel at the time - and he told me that he wanted me to document the making of a collection. I said sure, in a couple of years I would, but he said no, that it had to be me and it had to be now - this collection. He saw it as a turning point.
He explained the idea behind the Horn of Plenty collection, and why he wanted to document this collection particularly," Waplington continues. "He said he saw it as closing the door on his first 15 years; he saw it as his last collection as a young man. The set was a pile of garbage made up of his old sets, he used models who he'd used before, even the jewellery; everything was about recycling, renewal. It was a comment on the economy at the time, I think, as well as the industry generally."
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