Never wear stilts to church! How the fashionistas, wearing his outlandish creations, remembered Alexander McQueen

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By Tamara Cohen

Fallen angel: One of Alexander McQueen's long-time muses, heiress Daphne Guinness, wore a vintage McQueen dress with teeteringly high black platform boots from his Autumn/Winter 09 collection - they proved her downfall as she tripped on the cobbles


Fashion's royalty paid their last respects to the late designer Alexander McQueen yesterday in an incredible parade of his creations.

Supermodels Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss joined actress Sarah Jessica Parker, designer Stella McCartney and American Vogue editor Anna Wintour for the moving ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

The British designer, known to friends by his real name Lee, committed suicide in February, aged 40, just days after the death of his beloved mother.

Family and friends took a break from London Fashion Week, which ends tomorrow, to pay homage to McQueen by wearing his outlandish designs.

During the ceremony, Anna Wintour paid tribute to a 'complex and gifted young man' who transported his fans 'into a world of sensation where you could be shocked, repulsed or thrilled'.


In Vogue: Anna Wintour; legendary editor of American Vogue, wore a coat embroidered with gold birds from McQueen's preview Spring/Summer 2011 Collection, the first under the full control of the label's new creative director, Sarah Burton


Feathered friend: Naomi Campbell in a typically bold feather jacket and high boots with floral detail from the Autumn/Winter 2010 collection - McQueen's very last


McQueen's body was discovered at his £640,000 flat in London's Mayfair a day before his mother's funeral. An inquest heard the designer hanged himself after taking a cocktail of drugs.

It was a tragic end for one of British fashion's brightest stars, whose career was famously launched in the early Nineties by the late style guru Isabella Blow, who bought his entire graduation show at Central St Martin's College for £5,000.

McQueen rapidly became the fashion world's enfant terrible. But he also managed to impress the establishment, working with Gucci and founding two fashion labels which won him a string of awards.


City slicker: McQueen's clothes featured in many Sex And The City episodes, and its star Sarah Jessica Parker wore a black frocked coat from the preview Spring/Summer 2011 collection with buckled stilettos and a clutch bag from A/W 10


Hell for leather: Always one to do things her way, Kate Moss teamed a leather dress from McQueen's Spring/Summer 2008 collection with an Yves Saint Laurent smoking jacket and Louboutin stilettoes - despite the fact that Alexander preferred his clothes 'pure', never mixed with other designers. Moss was a close friend and muse of McQueen for more than a decade


Designers Pam Hogg (left) and Stella McCartney (right) also attended the Memorial Service in London


Homage: Alexander McQueen



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