Colin's Column | McQueen, Galliano and a Tale of Two Books

LONDON, United Kingdom -- Envisage two talented, middle-aged men, tortured by the demons of success and its dreaded corollary: failure. Both faced psychological and creative crises, which had probably been building for years with no escape in sight. Largely alone, they ultimately found their own solutions: death and drink. We are speaking of the late Alexander McQueen and the disgraced alcoholic, John Galliano. In the case of McQueen, his suicide was, of course, the end of his creative story. In...