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London's Victoria and Albert Museum is set to stage an exhibition dedicated to late fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

The 'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' exhibition will open in March 2015, with tickets on sale a YEAR in advance.

More than 660,000 people attended the show at Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in 2011, making it the most popular show staged there since 1946.

London-bound: The V&A Museum is set to stage the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition in 2015

Sell-out success: The McQueen exhibition in New York received 660,000 visitors

Savage Beauty also became the eighth most visited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 144-year history, alongside the 1978 Tutankhamun exhibition, the 1963 Mona Lisa exhibition and the 2010 Picasso retrospective.

Sarah Burton, the McQueen label's current creative director called the exhibition 'a celebration of the most imaginative and talented designer of our time.'

Announcing the news about Savage Beauty, Martin Roth, the director of the V&A, said: 'Lee Alexander McQueen was brought up in London, studied here and based his globally successful McQueen fashion brand here.

Innovative: McQueen's designs helped revive the British fashion industry and were famous worldwide

'By staging the exhibition at the V&A it feels like we are bringing his work home.'

London-born McQueen helped revive the British fashion industry with edgy designs that ranged from sculptural cocktail dresses in psychedelic patterns to high heels shaped like lobster claws.

His designs have been worn from by the rich and famous around the world and many attended the 2011 Met Ball in New York wearing his designs in celebration of the exhibition.

On display: Some visitors in New York queued for up to five hours to see the designs

The event, orchestrated by US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, saw Sarah Jessica Parker, Daphne Guinness, Naomi Campbell and Gisele Bunchen all wearing the designer's gowns.

McQueen committed suicide in February 2010 at age 40, but his London-based fashion house lives on under designer Sarah Burton.

Tickets for the London exhibition go on sale today.