Thomas, Dana

In the first decade of the 21st century, the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful – and turbulent – figures. But then, within 12 months, Alexander McQueen had committed suicide, and John Galliano’s career had unravelled in public after he was arrested for an anti-Semitic tirade at a Paris bar. Dana Thomas uses the story of these two charismatic figures to look behind the closed doors of the notoriously secretive fashion world.