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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

McQueen comes home to happy, dark place at London fashion week

Three Alexander McQueen runway looks: a metallic ruffled dress, horned-headpiece suit, and lace corset gown
Highlights from the Alexander McQueen spring summer 2027 collection at London fashion week. Composite: Indigital.tv

Back when a young Lee McQueen was showing at London fashion week, there was Dante, the show in a Hawksmoor church with a skeleton in the front row and a blaring soundtrack of organ music and gunfire. And there was Voss, where models were trapped inside a giant mirrored box set up as a psychiatric ward.

Twenty-five years later, the Alexander McQueen brand returned from the Paris schedule to a creepily beautiful subterranean 17th century London chapel, with steel harnesses, bulky ankle strapped heels that looked like electronic monitoring tags, and a chain mail dress of tiny silver skulls.

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