Naomi Campbell arrives at Alexander McQueen’s funeral. (Earl/Clements/Splash News)
Fashion royalty turned out in force Thursday for the funeral of designer Alexander McQueen.
Supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell and fellow designer Stella McCartney joined members of McQueen’s family to say a final farewell to the flamboyant fashionista.
About 100 mourners attended the funeral of McQueen, real name Lee, at St Paul’s Church in leafy Knightsbridge, West London.
The congregation, including Moss and Campbell who were both dressed entirely in black, spent around an hour inside the church before the coffin — laden with pink, white and red roses — was carried out by four pallbearers.
It was loaded into a waiting hearse with “Lee” in white flowers on the back.
Mourners spilled out of the church openly sobbing and hugging each other.
Moss, wearing a black knee-length dress teamed with sunglasses, a black fur stole and black five-inch Louboutin heels, looked upset as she got into a waiting car.
She was followed by her close friend McCartney who wore black pleated trousers, knee high boots and a short windjacket.
Campbell was one of the last mourners to leave the church wearing a black hat, black gloves and a jacket with oversize shoulder pads.
Artist Daphne Guinness teamed a black skirt suit with an elaborate Lady GaGa-style full length veil and beehive hairdo.
Also among the mourners were artist and director Sam Taylor-Wood.
McQueen’s father Ronald was joined by his five children at the ceremony which came two weeks after the 40-year-old’s death.
He was discovered hanged in a wardrobe at his £2million ($3 million) Mayfair home by his cleaner on February 11 on the eve of his mother’s funeral.
An inquest into his death was told that he left a suicide note for his loved ones, which is believed to have been found at the scene.
Friends told how he had locked himself away and refused to get out of bed after his mother Joyce, to whom he was said to have been extremely close, died on February 2.
McQueen’s death came just days before London Fashion Week, which opened last Friday.
His life is due to be remembered through his clothes at Paris Fashion week on March 9.