Alexander McQueen exhibition in Melbourne will celebrate the artist's inspirations using the NGV's collection

More than 100 fashion works will feature in the collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  (Supplied: Getty Images/Dominique Charriau)

The first major Australian exhibition of the late British fashion superstar Alexander McQueen will come to Melbourne this summer, almost 13 years since his death in 2010 — and seven after the landmark exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty broke records at London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), with more than 480,000 tickets sold.

Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse will open at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) on December 11, and is a collaboration between that institution and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where it opened in April.