Tuesday, 12 October 2021

‘Darkness and light’: Alexander McQueen fashion house comes home to London

Rooftop catwalk show celebrated the city and its ‘unpredictable skies’, said designer Sarah Burton

Twenty years after a young Lee McQueen signed a deal with Gucci and moved his catwalk shows from East End carparks in London to plush Parisian salons, the Alexander McQueen brand marked the world’s shifting back on to its axis by coming home.

The first McQueen show in 18 months brought actors Vanessa Kirby, Emilia Clarke and Kosar Ali to a front row of folding chairs on the 11th floor of a Wapping multistorey where the Shard, Gherkin and Walkie-Talkie buildings gave an alfresco catwalk a recognisable London backdrop.

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