It's a Jungle Out There (Alexander McQueen collection)

It's a Jungle Out There (Autumn/Winter 1997) is the tenth collection of the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and the first one released (under his brand) after his debut as the creative director of the French haute couture house Givenchy.

[3] Fur, silk, leather and acid-washed denim were used for the confection of the garments; additionally, some of the pieces featured antlers and taxidermy crocodile heads, human hair and iron jewellery.

You know, if you tell them "I give you a blank page, choose your colour, chose your fabric," they are not intelligent to do that; I learned that fast.The pieces displayed McQueen's precise structures.

[19] According to Simon Costin, set designer for McQueen's shows, "his mood boards were covered with blow-ups of images of National Geographic of gazelles being torn apart by lions".

According to Sebastian Pons, his design assistant at the time: " I walked to his London studio and he was talking of an haute couture show, "I tried to please them and I fucked it up so I'm going to do my own thing".

[21] For the creation of the garments, McQueen applied classic patterns to "street-wear fabrics", resulting on leather and denim frock coats.

[25][26] Costin used the galleries of the market as the catwalk and built an iron backdrop with fake bullet holes to create a gritty atmosphere;[27] he found inspiration for this idea in the ending scene of Arthur Penn's Bonny and Clyde.

The markings of Thompson's gazelle's eyes were recreated and also some models wore white contact lenses intending to make them look more "animalistic".

The hairstyles were mostly influenced by mullet or mohawks style, dyed as gazelle's markings, and some of them included shapes that resembled animal ears.

In some cases, the clothes mixed different fabrics as the piece worn by Jaime King which was made of brown leather and denim; it also included crocodile taxidermy in the shoulders.

During the show, the pile of crashed cars was set on fire after a group of people destroyed the barricades trying to get in made the heaters fall.