Sarah Burton: 'The McQueen team is like family'

It was a year of victories for Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen, who in the shadow of designers at work this year is a familiar name. Burton not only designed the most talked about dress of the year, the Duchess of Cambridge cheap wedding dresses, but this month, the designer of the year at the British Fashion Awards. And do not forget the not so small to the "Alexander McQueen: the wild beauty" retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The show was widely applauded and attracted a record number in the history of the museum's Costume Institute: more half a million visitors. Burton had in his right hand McQueen for 13 years before the designer committed suicide in February 2010. The exhibition is a tribute to the extraordinary talents of Burton and the team very passionate McQueen .

"It was an incredible year," Burton said in his soft accent color seat Cheshire McQueen in Clerkenwell, London. McQueen came directly from the Central Saint Martins, the first question Lee, with his characteristic humor and plays, was "Do Do you UFO? ".
"He was a visionary, an extraordinary man and I am very happy to keep his name in the situation - the people were incredibly helpful," says Burton. "The audience at the Metropolitan exhibition really showed how many people had touched his work, and from all walks of life."
The blonde, with fine features Burton, 37, has no trace of selfishness which weighs sometimes the fashion industry. Earn more commission century dress was no small thing. Alexander McQueen is easily played by a very radical sense of beauty and Kate Middleton proved to be very safe. Burton asked to speak at the Palace of zip detail and the creation of the cheap wedding dress, so I had to design a cover-up. She kept the mystery of the bite "accessories" and appointments with specialists at the Royal School of sewing, hand, lace applications of beautiful feet.
In Westminster Abbey, the blonde could barely glimpse, ballet disordered Burton of the camera to adjust the Middleton train and walked down the aisle. It is the practice itself.
Burton Alexander McQueen stands out in the aftermath of the house, while injecting a greater sense of femininity and romance of the new collections useful and desirable. The originality lies in the fusion of the Britons Arcane (lace, embroidery, specialists in feathers, leather workers, manufacturers of corsets) with modern technology to create extremely dramatic constructions.
"We are very pleased with what we do and that is so important that we establish a standard sewing workshop in the UK." Next year, the younger sister brand, urban, McQ make their debut on the catwalks of London, for an important emotion for London Fashion Week in the Olympic year. "Every day I love what I do and I think it's a gift and a privilege to love their work. McQueen team as a family, "he said. Magic Kingdom long can Sarah Burton.