Alexander McQueen's Death: Friends Reflect Nearly Two Months Later

New York Times:

Daphne Guinness, whose understanding of fashion history collides with Ms. Blow's like a bloodline, recalled the scene in his Paris hotel room in October, when friends gathered after his remarkable show: "I had never seen him happier or so full of ideas. It was a really kind of sedate, wonderful evening."

Like everyone, she is puzzled by his suicide. "I really thought he had turned a lot of corners," she said, adding, "Maybe it was suddenly like he had turned so many corners that the blackness came back tenfold."

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