Alexander McQueen's most futuristic runway show moments


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Nov. 30, 2012 -- Aimee Mullins has amazing athletic accomplishments, a successful modeling career, and has earned accolades as a motivational speaker. They are such great accomplishments that some people are surprised when they learn that this pillar of strength stands atop prosthetic legs.


Alexander McQueen's most futuristic runway show moments

Paralympic athlete and double amputee Aimee Mullins opened Alexander McQueen's thirteenth fashion show, simply titled No. 13 (Spring/Summer 1999), wearing this pair of wooden prosthetic legs.


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Aimee Mullins has a dizzyingly impressive resumé. As a model, she's shot with top photographers, including Steven Klein and Inez and Vinoodh; covered magazines like Dazed ; and opened runway.


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In 1999, she modelled for British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, opening his London show on a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs made from solid ash, with integral boots. She is able to change her height between 5 ft 8in and 6 ft 1in by changing her legs. [6]


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Mullins is a world-class Paralympic athlete, and she modeled the boots for his 1999 show, No. 13. Aimee Mullins: They were solid wood, solid ash, so there's no give in the ankle. So any kind of a runway walk that I had practiced went out the window.


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Aimee Mullins. Aimee Mullins is an athlete, fashion model and activist. She also stars in the hugely successful, Emmy-nominated Netflix series Stranger Things. Aimee's film debut was a starring role in the highly acclaimed film Cremaster 3, by contemporary artist Matthew Barney, first presented in the US at the Guggenheim Museum in 2003.


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Mullins is a world-class Paralympic athlete, and she modeled the boots for his 1999 show, No. 13. Aimee Mullins: They were solid wood, solid ash, so there's no give in the ankle. So any kind of a runway walk that I had practiced went out the window.


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Art Directed by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, it was hailed as one of the most groundbreaking commercial images of the year. The photograph shows the model Aimee Mullins with prosthetic legs and was used by McQueen and Knight to visualise alternative perceptions of fashion and physical beauty. Read more Object details About this object record


Prosthetic legs worn by Aimee Mullins on the runway. Legs, No. 13, Spring/Summer 1999 (via

In 1998, Aimée made her runway debut in London at the invitation of one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Alexander McQueen. Walking alongside the supermodels of the world, Aimée's groundbreaking, triumphant turn propelled her onto the magazine covers of ID and Dazed and Confused.


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Aimee Mullins has done it all: from prosthetics pioneer at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games, to modelling, public speaking, and acting in one of Netflix's biggest global hits.. Those led to modelling assignments for major designers and visionary image makers including Alexander McQueen and Nick Knight, having the world's major fashion.


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Wooden boots or furniture legs -Alexander McQueen's prosthesis for famous model Aimee Mullins ( fig. 6) are carved and refer to historical wood crafting through history, as well as to the classic.


No. 13 Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The show opened with athlete Aimee Mullins in a pair of hand-carved prosthetic legs designed by McQueen. (Mullins was born with fibular hemimelia, or missing fibula bones, and had both her legs amputated below the knee when she was a year old.)


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After school, Mullins did some modeling -- including a legendary runway show for Alexander McQueen -- and then turned to acting,. "The most amazing part [of MIT's h2.0 conference] was a talk by Aimee Mullins, an athlete, a model and an actress with both legs amputated below the knees. She compared prosthetic legs to eyeglasses, and in the.


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17March 2023 Text Emma Hope Allwood The September 1998 issue of Dazed is one of the most meaningful in this magazine's nearly three decade history. Guest edited by Alexander McQueen, who would have been 54 today, its cover features Paralympian Aimee Mullins, in an image that made headlines.


Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Fashion Gala At The V&A Featuring Rupert Friend and Aimee

Aimee Mullins on disability, design and becoming an Alexander McQueen muse "Fashion is a perfect arena to explore these larger societal conversations around inclusivity." Aimee Mullins has a dizzyingly impressive resumé.


Rupert Friend and Aimee Mullins arriving at the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition Gala

What I'd forgotten—or maybe only learned later—was that the show had opened with Aimee Mullins, the amputee Paralympic athlete, model, and actress, walking on the elaborately wooden legs.