The McQueen Documentary Tells The Story Of The People Who Carry His Legacy

When Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui approached Alexander McQueen’s family about telling the late designer’s story in documentary form, the answer was a firm no. The brand, under the creative direction of Sarah Burton, also declined. For the former, the tragic story of McQueen’s suicide in February 2010 was still too raw to tell. For the latter, there was a need to look forward, rather than backwards, so that its current creative director could write her own chapter at the house. But the appetite for a film was there. When Bonhôte (producer and co-director) and Ettedgui (writer and co-director) proposed their concept to a series of distributors in February 2017, it was financed within three days. “We wanted to make a really respectful cinematic version of Lee’s story,” Bonhôte tells Vogue. “You could go very tabloid and sensationalist, but we wanted to put his work at the film’s centre, and to try to tell his life from the fashion shows. People were excited about this.” Read more at Vogue.