McQueen Spring Summer 2026 Show
Tennis Club de Paris, Paris.
COLLECTION - subconscious desires surfacing, journeying from desire to deliverance. Submitting to the raw power of nature.
Show Space
A site of simmering tensions in the peak of summer, tradition and folklore are abstracted, connected through nature.
Conceived by British Tony Award-winning artist Tom Scutt, in collaboration with McQueen Creative Director Seán McGirr, the show space is rooted in ritual. References to The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy (1973), are woven into fortified maypole-like structures grounded on cork, made using 8000 metres of hessian ribbon and natural foliage.
Traditional artisanal practices are celebrated, in a maypole crown crafted by the Armagh Rhymers, a folk group dedicated to preserving craft, music and theatre, connecting local communities and generations.
Music
An original soundtrack produced by A. G. Cook, continuing McQueen’s collaboration with British artists driving innovation in music. A tension between unsettling and uplifting, transitioning between acoustic and synthesised. Cinematic, layering expansive elemental-inspired sounds – water, earth and fire - and syncopated techno beats. A folkloric, Anglo-Saxon and urbane score, pounding towards dreamlike release.
Beauty
Raw and elemental, deeply connected to earth and smouldering fire. Hands marked by mud. Intensity cut with precision, hair sharply cut and undone. Eyes intensified, ringed with ash, and the glow of intense heat on bare skin.
Guests
Friends of the house attended the show, including FKA Twigs, Taylour Paige, Ewan Mitchell, Tokischa, Evan Mock, Marisa Abela, Girl in Red, Alisha Boe, The Last Dinner Party, Hwang So Yoon, Ariana Greenblatt and Montell Fish.
