Inspiration… Victoriana. Mary Anning and a conchologist’s cabinet of curiosities. Pearls, coral, seashells and jewels found scattered across the wild English shoreline and recorded in exquisite detail. Forgotten treasures: a trousseau of delicate découpage dresses featuring white ribbon work, mother-of pearl sequins, precious silver jacquard silks, scalloped broderie anglaise, and trailing wildflowers and ferns. A […]

Inspiration… Sensuous, mysterious and uncompromising, the Alexander McQueen woman this season is a darkly romantic muse. Her enchanted childhood was wildly unconventional. Moving between an untamed rural landscape steeped in fairytale tradition and legend and the glitter and gleam of city life, she takes inspiration from the contrasts between both. Her wardrobe is a reflection […]

Explorers’ sketchbooks, often battered and neglected, stored away and perhaps long forgotten inspired the delicate and emotionally resonant embroideries in the Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2018 menswear collection. Fragments of Rudyard Kipling’s beautiful 1898 poem, The Explorer, are also printed and embroidered across clothing and accessories throughout.