Alexander McQueen in 2003. (AP)

With the Metropolitan Museum’s gala last night celebrating the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, we picked some of the brilliant Brit’s most striking — and crazy — looks.

While his inspiring presentations often veered into the realm of conceptual art, and his shows resembled installation pieces more than runway shows, McQueen found beauty in elements of nature — bones both human and animal, skull prints, taxidermy and all things avian.

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But it wasn’t all about showmanship. Under his clothes was tailoring as structured as a scaffold, with the grandeur to match.

“Savage Beauty,” the McQueen retrospective at the Met’s Costume Institute, opens tomorrow and runs through July 31.