Friday, February 12, 2010 PARIS: The fashion world's leading voices on Thursday paid tribute to the outlandish avant-garde "genius" of Alexander McQueen, the British designer found dead at home in London, after an apparent suicide. "He was an imaginative designer and a show-stopper," said the powerful head of the Paris couture federation, Didier Grumbach, of a designer ready to court controversy with "bumster" trousers and ripped clothes, or send stuffed animals or an amputee model out on the catwalk. McQueen, a four-time winner of the British designer of the year award, was creative director of his own label which was bought out by Gucci and was one of Britain's most lauded fashion designers. "He was a genius. What a terrible, tragic waste," said the equally provocative and politically-inclined British designer Katherine Hamnett. Model Kate Moss said she was "shocked and devastated" at his death at 40 while designer V...
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