RaveThe Nervous Breakdown...simultaneously sharp and whimsical, risk-taking and carefully wrought, and so layered and thought-provoking that they complicate any easy critique or celebration of the fashion industry. Neither hagiography nor hatchet-job, House of McQueen invites us to ponder fashion, like poetry, as a richly paradoxical evocation of \'being alive\' ... In Wallace’s hands, McQueen is as much a character as a historical figure, and the collection reads like a lyrical novel.
