The “armadillo” (as he called it on Twitter), a 24cm-tall shoe-boot hybrid suggesting the hoof of a shell-encrusted alien. On 6 October 2009 20 pairs made their debut at Plato’s Atlantis, a collection inspired by Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. It was the first fashion show to be live-streamed, and the last fashion show of McQueen’s life.
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