The Museum of Savage Beauty: Necklace from flapper designs Watch Video
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Description: Senior Research Assistant Kate Bethune describes the remarkable pheasant claw and pearl necklace from Alexander McQueen's What a Merry Go Round collection. nnShaun Leane for Alexander McQueen, What a Merry Go Round, Autumn/Winter 2001. nnTranscript:nThis necklace is classic McQueen because it fuses beauty and the grotesque with this incredulous combination of expensive Tahitian pearls and vulgar, lacquered pheasant claws, and these claws clatter around the neck of the wearer. It has a very Gothi
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