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Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 196911 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier.

He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label.

His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.

McQueen committed suicide in 2010 at the age of forty.

Fashion design is the art of application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories.

Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social attitudes, and has varied over time and place.

Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories such as bracelets and necklace.

Because of the time required to bring a garment onto the market, designers must at times anticipate changes to consumer tastes.

In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, and is a contrast to a "necessity good", for which demand increases proportionally less than income.

Luxury goods are often synonymous with superior goods and Veblen goods.

Designer clothing is clothing that bears the logo of a recognizable fashion designer.

Brands.

Designer clothing is not always created by the founder of the company.

For example, the actual designer of Chanel is not its original founder and designer, Gabrielle Chanel, but German designer Karl Lagerfeld.

The quality of the clothing and degree of its resemblance, if any, to the designer's work vary considerably depending on the licensee and the terms of the agreement the designer has struck.

Some terms may limit the number of garment styles that may be produced, allowing the designer to veto any designs he or she finds unappealing.

Examples include:

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

Used more loosely, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically the first, largest, fastest, most heavily armed, or best known.