The lanky former model designed clothes worn by a number of celebrities, including Madonna. She was 49 when she died and officials ruled the death a suicide. L'Wren Scott was found dead in her New York apartment in March 2014, hanging from a door knob with a scarf around her neck. "His brilliant imagination knew no bounds," she said after his death. One anecdote that helped cement his bad-boy image was that he had once embroidered a suit for the Prince of Wales with a profanity sewn into the lining.īritish Vogue Editor Alexandra Shulman called him a "modern-day genius." He trained in London's Savile Row at a company that made suits for Prince Charles, and earned a reputation for controversy that earned him the titles "enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion." McQueen, whose real name was Lee Alexander McQueen, was born the son of a taxi driver in London's East End. He expressed his devastation at her death on his Twitter account days before he died. McQueen, who had dressed stars from Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman to Rihanna and Sandra Bullock, killed himself nine days after the death of his mother. Officials didn't disclose what the note said. Officials later ruled the cause of the 40-year-old fashion designer's death as asphyxia and hanging. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexander McQueen hanged himself in the wardrobe of his London apartment and left a suicide note in February 2010.
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