Fashion designer extraordinaire and icon Alexander McQueen has taken his own life at his home in London. He was 40 years old. It is being reported that the designer hanged himself just few days after his beloved mothers death a week ago. Alexander was very close to his mother and it appears that he could not handle living without her and so took his own life. His suicide comes exactly 3 years after his closest friend also committed suicide. He was due to show his latest collection in NY at Bryant Park today. The show has been cancelled as the fashion world struggles to understand and deal with AM's death.

Here's a picture for Mr. McQueen and his beloved mother from 2001

Doesn't matter how rich, famous, creative or otherwise you are, pain is pain and today McQueen decided he's better off dead, that's an unimaginable type of pain that takes one there.

RIP Alexander McQueen what a tragic loss indeed.

Below a reminder of the work McQueen did both on the read carpet and on runways around the world.