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.