Jewellery has been part of the McQueen universe from its nascence: Lee Alexander McQueen forged (no pun) a partnership with Shaun Leane, then a conservative goldsmith working in Hatton Garden. They met in 1994, when McQueen asked Leane to create delicate T-bar watch-fobs, based on Victorian originals. He wasn’t sure how McQueen would use them: he certainly didn’t anticipate that the designer would roughly push them through holes hacked in the crotch of fine wool skirtshellip;

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