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Joe Bromley

Trino Verkade: ‘I spent my life helping Alexander McQueen — now I’m selling my rare archive’

Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga and Zendaya might well have their trigger fingers ready — one of the largest and most rarefied personal collections of Lee Alexander McQueen’s work today goes under the hammer in London.

The more than 50 lots going at Kerry Taylor Auctions, many of which were whisked straight off the catwalk and have been wrapped in acid-proof paper and kept in boxes ever since, make up The Trino Verkade Collection — the wardrobe of McQueen’s first ever employee. 

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