Dazed and Confused September 2001 Alexander McQueen

The September 2001 issue of Dazed & Confused featured an Alexander McQueen fashion story titled "Salò," photographed by Norbert Schoerner. The photoshoot was a macabre and intense editorial inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, exploring themes of sex and death. 

The controversial photoshoot

• The photoshoot was described by McQueen and Schoerner as a "very strange story".

• It featured provocative and unsettling imagery, including pig heads, rotting food, and dead-looking male models draped in a derelict factory in East London.

• The shoot was so provocative that one of the models, booked for a specific shot with a donkey, walked off the set.

• McQueen was deeply involved and hands-on, with Schoerner recalling him smashing watermelons to add to the scene.