PHOTOS: Alexander McQueen | 1969 - 2010

Lights illuminate rooms at the London home of fashion designer Alexander McQueen soon after it was confirmed that the 40-year-old designer had been found dead there. Police have said that his death was not being treated as suspicious.  (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

A man who identified himself as the boyfriend of Alexander McQueen reacts outside McQueen’s home in London. Emergency services were called to the 40-year-old designer’s home, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the death was not being treated as suspicious.  (Carl Court / AFP/Getty Images)

The Alexander McQueen Store on Old Bond Street in London.  (Neil Mockford / Getty Images)

A floral tribute lies on the pavement outside McQueen’s shop in London.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

A statement announcing the death of Alexander McQueen is put in the window of his boutique in London.  (Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty Images)

A Brazilian TV journalist reports from outside the shop of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen in London.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

British fashion designer Alexander McQueen carries a falcon in Paris at the end of the Givenchy high fashion collection in 1997.  (Pierre Verdy / AFP/Getty Images)

Alexander McQueen and collaborator Kathy England on the catwalk at the end of McQueen’s spring-summer 2000 ready-to-wear collection for Givenchy in Paris.  (Thomas Coex / AFP/Getty Images)

Rock star Elton John and McQueen arrive at the inauguration of the new LVMH Tower in New York in December 1999.   (Doug Kanter / AFP/Getty Images)

Alexander McQueen after Givenchy’s fall-winter haute couture collection in Paris in July 2000.  (Pierre Verdy / AFP/Getty Images)

McQueen sits with his mother, Joyce, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for the Radical Fashion exhibition in 2001.  (Willian Conran / Associated Press)

Alexander McQueen shows the Commander of the British Empire that he received from Queen Elizabeth II during investitures at Buckingham Palace in London in October 2003.  (Matthew Fearn / AFP/Getty Images)

Alexander McQueen with model Kate Moss.  (Myung Jung Kim / Associated Press)

McQueen is greeted by model Naomi Campbell after a black-centric fashion show in London in 2004.   (Nicolas Asfouri / AFP/Getty Images)

McQueen acknowledges applause at the end of the presentation of his spring-summer 2006 ready-to-wear collection in Paris in October 2005. His shirt refers to top model Kate Moss after photos of her apparently snorting cocaine in a London music studio were published.   (Remy de la Mauviniere / Associated Press)

Alexander McQueen at the end of the fall-winter ready-to-wear collection show in Paris in March 2006.  (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)

Alexander McQueen with Sarah Jessica Parker at the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, celebrating “Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion” in 2006.  (Stuart Ramson / Associated Press)

McQueen at the end of his fall-winter 2007-08 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris in March 2007.  (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)

Alexander McQueen at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood in March 2008 before the opening of his L.A. store.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Alexander McQueen after his fall-winter 2009-10 ready-to-wear collection is shown in Paris.  (Christophe Ena / Associated Press)

British designer Alexander McQueen at his spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris in February.  (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)