Our thoughts go out with his family during this tough time 🙁

Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker is ‘shocked and overcome with grief’ at the tragic death of her British designer friend Alexander McQueen.

Parker released a statement Thursday detailing her grief at her friend’s death at the age of just forty, “ I am shocked and overcome with grief upon learning about the untimely death of the quiet genius Alexander McQueen.

“My heart goes out to his family and all those who worked for and with him. In his atelier, his showroom, his stores and various business interests that were so rapidly growing, he was beloved. By all of them.

“He was talented well beyond his years and the seriousness and unrivaled talent which he applied to his work is in bountiful display year after year and collection after collection.

“Every single inspired, original, lofty, whimsical, stunning, brilliant and jaw dropping detail was Alexander Mcqueen. There has never been anyone like him. And there simply never will be.

“What is more devastating is that despite all his success thus far, creatively, critically and commercially, . His greatest achievements lay ahead of him. The future would be whatever he hoped to make of it.

To read more of what she had to say, click here