Robert Campin is often acknowledged as the first of the great Flemish painters, praised for his most-well known work of art, The Mérode Altarpiece, which is housed at The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alexander McQueen looked to Campin’s The Thief to the Left of Christ, in his FW 1997 collection entitled It’s a Jungle Out There. Often finding inspiration in the grand and historic, McQueen printed Campin’s painting of the crucifixion onto a jacket, dismantling and then re-piecing the image to achieve a patch-work style garment.