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Dark romance: Miley Cyrus wows in custom McQueen at the Oscars

At the 97th Academy Awards, Miley Cyrus commanded the red carpet in a custom McQueen creation, delivering one of the night's most memorable fashion moments. Embracing the house's signature dark romanticism, the singer and actress stunned in a high-neck gown that seamlessly blended historic grandeur with modern edge. Majesty in black silk and...

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McQueen brings daring elegance to 2025 BRIT Awards red carpet

Few fashion houses master the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and cultural influence like McQueen. At the 2025 BRIT Awards, the brand reaffirmed its dominance of red carpet storytelling, dressing some of the evening's most celebrated artists in a striking mix of ethereal romance, subversive tailoring and gothic grandeur. With each look...

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Alexander McQueen relives catwalk shows through Spotify

From catwalk to Spotify, British fashion house Alexander McQueen has launched a new initiative ‘McQueen Music’ to allow its fans to stream music taken from its iconic fashion shows in their homes. Launched as part of its programme to help its fans deal with life indoors amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Alexander McQueen Spotify channel follows...

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Alexander McQueen launches project encouraging creativity

British fashion house Alexander McQueen has launched the ‘McQueen Creators’ a new community project to inspire creativity, in a time when much of the world is currently under lockdown due to the global coronavirus pandemic. ’McQueen Creators’ aims to “inspire and initiate creative conversation,” explained the fashion brand, and each week it will...

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Video: MCQUEEN | Official Teaser Trailer

A personal look at the extraordinary life, career and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, McQueen is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary. Read a review of the movie here. Source:...

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Review: McQueen film premiers at Tribeca Film Festival

“We didn’t want to make a fashion film, we wanted to make a film about an extraordinary man who happened to work in fashion,” says Ian Bonhôte, who together with co-director Peter Ettedgui, unveils the highly anticipated McQueen documentary at Tribeca Film Festival this week. His words are fitting because McQueen’s discomfort within the fashion...

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Alexander McQueen launches capsule scarf collection

Alexander McQueen has launched a range of special edition scarves in celebration of the designer’s “Savage Beauty” retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which opened on Saturday, March 14. The capsule collection consists of five designs, each featuring a print of an iconic piece from Alexander McQueen’s most memorable collections such...

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Paris Fashion Week round-up

Lightness was a recurring theme at Paris Fashion Week. The spring summer 2013 collections shown on the Paris catwalks had a modern constructivist element and the collections felt airy, light and new.With all eyes on Raf Simons at Dior and Hedi Slimane at Yves Saint Laurent, it is easy to forget that Paris is perhaps the focal point of the...

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Met Ball gala in pictures

The Met Ball organised by Anna Wintour drew a host of fashion celebrities to celebrate the work of McQueen. The gala is America's biggest night on the fashion calendar, and with the late, great fashion designer Alexander McQueen as a theme for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, red carpet expectations were very high. Gwyneth...

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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the work of McQueen with the exhibition: "Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty." On Monday the opening gala was hosted by Anna Wintour, the US Vogue editor and Met fund-raiser, actress Salma Hayek and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, the owner of the McQueen brand. Colin Firth, the star of “The...

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PFW: Alexander McQueen AW11

Showing in La Conciergerie, Marie Antoinette's prison site, Sarah Burton injected the Alexander McQueen label with a sense of serenity this season. For fall, the "icy" collection embraced tweeds, pleats and fur that lined hems, cuffs, and shoulder seams. The material wrapped the skirt of a drop-waist halterneck dress or swathed the hood of a...

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McQeen to be honoured at BFA

Lee Alexander McQueen will receive a posthumous award at the British Fashion Awards. Four time winner of the British Designer of the Year award, Lee Alexander McQueen receives the Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design award in recognition for his extraordinary career. Revered globally for his fabulous tailoring, exciting, innovative and...