Savage Beauty, the Metropolitan Museum's tribute to late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, will come to London next year.
The record-breaking exhibition will go on show at London's V&A museum from March 14 to July 19 2015.
"I am thrilled to announce that the V&A will bring this wonderful exhibition to London to celebrate the extraordinary creative talent of one of the most innovative designers of recent times," Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said in a statement. "Lee Alexander McQueen was brought up in London, studied here and based his globally successful McQueen fashion brand here – by staging the exhibition at the V&A it feels like we are bringing his work home. "The collection, which showcased Alexander's working from his MA graduate collection in 1992 to his unfinished Autumn/Winter 2010 season, was curated by The Costume Institute in New York and became one of the Met Museum's top ten most visited shows.
With a staggering total of 661,509 visitors, it became the eighth most popular exhibition in the Met's 141-year history.
Curated by the V&A's senior curator of fashion Claire Wilcox, the London exhibition will be based on the original Met version, with Andrew Bolton - who curated the New York exhibition - acting as consultant curator. Supported by American Express and put on in partnership with Swarovski, it will cost £16 to visit, with concessions available and V&A members going free. Visit www.vam.ac.uk/savagebeauty or call 020 7420 9736 to book.
Its run time was originally from May 4 to August 7 2011, but was extended by a week due to popular demand.
