![]() FW97’s “It’s a Jungle Out There,” which took place in Borough Market, garnered attention for all the wrong reasons – it was soundtracked by punk-ravers The Prodigy and a car was accidentally set on fire inside, all while an iron background fitted with fake bulletholes commented on the area this show took place, it being a far cry from the sophisticated spaces that LFW had since called home. Up until his death in 2010, McQueen’s shows would seasonally rip up the rule book of what can and can’t be done on a catwalk. Perhaps the most famous of them all was Lee Alexander McQueen, whose shows in the ‘90s and early noughties became the stuff of industry legends. Names such as Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hamnett – the latter being the designer who showcased the anti-nuclear war-slandering “58% DON’T WANT PERSHING” T-shirt that, as The Guardian reported, “made Margaret Thatcher squawk like a chicken” – set the tone for many years to come and paved the way for some of the most notable aesthetic anarchists. The birth of LFW saw fashion activists flung onto an international platform.
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