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>> Next year's Costume Institute Gala — on May 2, 2011 — has its theme: "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty." Anna Wintour, Stella McCartney, and Colin Firth are set to co-chair the event, with Francois-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek as honorary chairs.

The accompanying exhibit will run at the museum May 4-July 31, 2011, and will cover McQueen's work from his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place weeks after his death in February 2010. A hundred pieces from his 19-year career will be on view, drawn from the McQueen London archives, the Givenchy archive in Paris, and private collections, including Isabella Blow's wardrobe, which Daphne Guinness owns in its entirety.

Curator Andrew Bolton, who is spearheading the project, stressed that he doesn't want the exhibit to feel like a retrospective, so the focus is thematic rather than chronological, reflecting McQueen's fascination with the 19th-century Romantic movement. Among the themed galleries planned: “The Savage Mind,” “Romantic Gothic,” “Romantic Nationalism,” “Romantic Exoticism,” and “Romantic Primitivism.” There will also be a “Cabinet of Curiosities” gallery featuring McQueen's collaborations with Philip Treacy and Shaun Leane, and a separate screening room to display videos of McQueen's theatrical runway presentations.

Sam Gainsbury and Joseph Bennett, who helped produce those dramatic shows, are serving as creative consultants to the exhibit, and the Alexander McQueen company is underwriting the whole thing with support from American Express and Conde Nast. “We felt it would be a great opportunity to show Lee’s work and his incredible contribution to the world of fashion and art,” Jonathan Akeroyd, president and CEO of Alexander McQueen, told WWD. “It felt like the right thing to do. Lee loved the museum. It will give us a great opportunity to show Lee’s work and the Alexander McQueen brand to a much broader community. It’s the greatest tribute and important for his legacy, but it’s also an exciting new chapter in the history of the brand.”

>> The Isabella Blow film Philip Treacy keeps hinting at is starting to take shape. Swedish filmmaker Anders Palm, who is producing the film, recently optioned Lauren Goldstein Crowe’s upcoming book, Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion — out Nov. 9. The book will provide more background to the screenplay already written by Max Newsom and Nicola Brighton, according to Goldstein Crowe, who has also been hired as a consultant on the film. Interesting that the book co-written by Blow's widower, Detmar Blow, which comes out around the same time as Goldstein Crowe's, will not be as heavily consulted. Detmar had previously suggested Rachel Weisz play Blow in the film. [WWD]

>> Philip Treacy is hoping to convince Brad Pitt to play him in the biopic he's putting together about Isabella Blow — "but it's wishful thinking and perhaps not very likely I know," he told Vogue UK. And he's got John Galliano signed on to play himself, Max Nesome writing the screenplay and Anders Palm producing. There's only been a hint about who might play Issie — but her widower, Detmar Blow, has piped up on who he thinks should do the job: “Rachel Weisz.” [WWD]

Kate Moss was the lady of the night yesterday as her ex Jefferson Hack hosted an event in her honor at Haunch of Venison in London. She teamed up with director Baillie Walsh to create a video project commissioned by Jefferson's publication, AnOther magazine, in which Kate was documented in 3D — the piece, called KM3D-1, sees Kate take on the role of Hindu goddess Kali. After the bash, Kate took off her heels and sensibly slipped into flats to leave the bash on the arm of another guy pal. The event also doubled as an unofficial launch party for London Fashion Week, which kicked off today. The action wrapped up at NYFW last night with Gwen Stefani's family-filled show. Now, stay tuned to PopSugar UK and FabSugar UK for the latest from England!

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>> Philip Treacy Putting Together Isabella Blow Film —Just last week, it was announced that pieces of Isabella Blow's wardrobe — including 90 Alexander McQueen outfits, 50 hats from Philip Treacy, and shoes by Manolo Blahnik — will be auctioned in September. And over the weekend at Naomi Campbell's birthday party, Treacy had a further piece of news related to the deceased fashion editor; Andre Leon Talley reports: "He has a producer to do a film on Isabella, and [John] Galliano has already confirmed to play himself. Who will play Isabella? Treacy has a great trick up his hat, and it’s going to rock the world, but he cannot reveal it until this major new talent confirms." [NYTimes, Vogue]

>> Yesterday came news that Lady Gaga, who has worked together with Philip Treacy on several of her headpieces, has applied for an internship with the milliner — although a spokesperson for Treacy said nothing definite had been confirmed yet. And today, a first look at another fashion collaboration: the first still from Gaga's upcoming "Alejandro" video, directed by Steven Klein, has appeared.

Gaga recently spoke to Extra about working with Klein, but she wasn't too forthcoming, calling it “a beautiful video” but adding that, “like all my videos, I really don’t know what it will look like until it’s finished.”

She continued: “[Steven] is a great friend of mine, and I love him so much and have so much respect for him. We’ve been so excited to collaborate . . . and tell a story of my music through his lens.”

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