Alexander McQueen

Scene-stealing runway sets from the S/S 2019 menswear shows

Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2019

Mood board: Sarah Burton’s oeuvre is always centred on tailoring. For S/S 2019 she showed an exquisite collection alive with the spirit of painter Francis Bacon and photographer John Deakin. Such strong, complicated, artistic men who inhabited the drinking dens...

Photographing Alexander McQueen: Ann Ray discusses her creative partnership with the designer

‘We met in our mid-twenties in late 1996 in Paris at Givenchy,’ says Ann Ray of her first encounter with the late Alexander McQueen, who that year was made chief designer of the couture maison. The French photographer formed...

Double act: when Carla Sozzani and Azzedine Alaïa spoke about fashion past, present and future

In celebration of the opening of Maison Alaïa’s London flagship this evening, we reached into our archives to reread a fascinating interview between Azzedine Alaïa and his close friend Carla Sozzani.  Here, we present an englightening conversation between the pair – who cultivated a friendship which...

Course of nature: V&A dissects fashion’s relationship with the living world

Four years ago, when curator Edwina Ehrman started thinking about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s latest exhibition, ‘Fashioned From Nature’, she envisaged exploring how fashion designers had been inspired by the natural world over time – how, for example, they...

Seal of approval: A/W 2018’s most outstanding fashion week invitations

Alexander McQueen A/W 2018

Scene setting: This season, Sarah Burton traded her usual Alexander McQueen show space – the Orangerie at the Jardin du Luxembourg – for the Carreau du Temple, in the Marais. If the guests missed the lovely little stroll among orange trees...

Centre stage: A/W 2018 menswear’s most eye-catching show venues

Alexander McQueen A/W 2018

Mood board: Our 2018 Wallpaper* Design Awards jury recently awarded the Best Men’s Fashion Collection to Sarah Burton’s lean, romantic offering for A/W 2017. Every season the McQueen label channels the same poetic punkish attitude, adding to it a new...

Leading light: Daan Roosegaarde reflects on judging the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018

The Dutch, given their tenuous topography, have a special relationship with nature. As Daan Roosegaarde points out: ‘Who lives below sea level? We must be a little crazy for that.’ The nation lives with the constant threat from water, but...

Making a scene: the most eye-catching venues of the S/S 2018 womenswear shows

The Rug Company celebrates 20 years of creative ingenuity with new capsule collection

In 20 quick years, The Rug Company has blazed the trail for tasteful, contemporary rugs with its blend of traditional craftsmanship and modern aesthetics, so much so that many have come to expect nothing less. Not only has The Rug...