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    “Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano”

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    Alexander McQueen and his mother Joyce in 2004.

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    Dana Thomas

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    Annabelle Nielsen and John Galliano in 2000.

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    Bernard Arnault and Alexander McQueen in 1998.

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    Kate Moss wearing Galliano’s Union Jack jacket for spring 1993.

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    Debra Shaw in McQueen’s “La Poupee” collection, spring 1997.

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    Galliano dressed as Napoleon after his spring 2007 couture show.

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    Debra Shaw in John Galliano’s first Christian Dior show, the Masai couture collection, for spring 1997.

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    McQueen and Tracy’s “La Dame Bleue” collection, spring 2008.

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    John Galliano in 1994.

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    Nadja Auermann in John Galliano’s Sao Schlumberger show, 1994.?

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    Shalom Harlow spray-painted by robots in McQueen’s “No. 13,” spring 1999.

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    Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen and Annabelle ?Neilson in London in February 2010.

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    John Galliano modeling pieces from “The Ludic Game,” 1985.

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    Galliano, far right, at Wilson’s Grammar School.

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    A ruffled look from McQueen’s “Widows of Culloden” collection.

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    A look from Alexander McQueen’s Dante collection, fall, 1996.

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    A look from Alexander McQueen’s “The Hunger” collection, spring 1996.

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    Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow in 2005.

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    Alexander McQueen in 2004.

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    Kate Moss as a hologram in McQueen’s “Widows of Culloden,” fall 2006.

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    Naomi Campbell in McQueen’s first Givenchy collection, wearing Philip Treacy’s golden sheep hat, spring couture, 2007.

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