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Native New Yorkers heeded Mayor Guilliani's advice. As tropical storm Floyd headed for Manhattan, they shut up shop and headed home. And as strong winds and torrential rainfall threatened to demolish the tented venues in Bryant Park, Thursday's timetable of runway shows was promptly and unceremoniously abandoned.
In such inauspicious circumstances, only a mad dog or an Englishman would insist that his show must go on. But for Alexander McQueen, cancellation was never an option. Having abandoned this week's London schedule (an absence which will inevitably extend greater prominence to less acknowledged British talent), he had...