The Alexander McQueen exhibition staged by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and supported by US Vogue editor Anna Wintour has been a great success, with over 600,000 visitors since it opened in May. However the fact that the retrospective was shown in New York, rather than the designer's home city, was a big disappointment for UK fashion fans, students and journalists. Melanie Rickey of Grazia magazine and the Fashion Editor at Large blog has begun an online campaign to bring the McQueen exhibition home, via Twitter and an e-petition (currently with 915 signatures). She has argued voraciously for moving the exhibition to London – pointing out that Lee McQueen studied, lived, worked and was inspired by the capital city. She also argues that if the exhibition was re-homed here, many more fans would flock to pay homage to the hugely influential late designer.
If you would like to add your name to the petition, you can sign the petition below, and use the hashtag #bringmcqueenexhibitionhome on Twitter.
What do you think? If the exhibition came to London, would you visit it?
