“Many an idea for a McQueen extravaganza had begun as a sketch on a humble English beer mat.”
From an article about the life and suicide of English designer Alexander McQueen in “The Final Bow,” by Cathy Horyn, in the April 4, 2010 issue of The New York Times (referring to the times that Mr. McQueen and his friend and fellow designer Shaun Leane spent together at their “old haunts”).