{"id":43163,"date":"2021-12-14T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=206968"},"modified":"2021-12-14T04:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T04:11:13","slug":"alexander-mcqueen-wales-book","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/alexander-mcqueen-wales-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander McQueen Releases New Publication To Hero The Talent Of Young Creatives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Cl\u00e9mentine Schneidermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Alexander McQueen<\/a> Autumn\/Winter 2020, creative director Sarah Burton<\/a> sought out inspiration from the crafts, poetry and literature of South Wales. Inspired by this experience the designer joined forces with Charlotte James and Cl\u00e9mentine Schneidermann of Ffasiwn Stiwdio – a creative collaboration with school-age people – to create a series of immersive fashion, photography and embroidery workshops. This month, Alexander McQueen published a book to document the entire project which realizes the next generation of creatives.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Alexander McQueen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conceptualized by James and Schneidermann together with the McQueen team and coordinated by youth worker, Michelle Hurter at Blaina Community Centre, the Alexander McQueen project started in June 2020. Fashion, customization and photography workshops were built and designed to offer hands-on experiences of the ways to make clothes and images. Over months of on-off restrictions, members of the McQueen team travelled to collaborate with the group of 12 to 17-year-olds in Covid-secure sessions and continued remotely when they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Cl\u00e9mentine Schneidermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all been inspired by the experience of being able to make a practical connection with this collaboration with young people in Wales,” Burton said. “Community values and the belief in offering creative opportunities to young people are at the heart of what we believe at Alexander McQueen, and this record of what we all learned together last year is a testament to what transformative things can happen everywhere when empowering equal access to creative ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result saw a culmination of sketches, research with their families, writing, embroidery, photographs and fittings conducted with the McQueen atelier which formed a\u00a0 four-day location shoot. Locations in Wales such as Brynmawr, Abertillery Park, Blaina, Keeper\u2019s Pond Blaenavon and Ogmore-by-Sea provided the backdrop.<\/p>\n