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The end of an era at Alexander McQueen: Sarah Burton's legacy at a glance

After 26 years, Sarah Burton will leave British luxury fashion house Alexander McQueen. When the former McQueen intern took the helm of the brand in 2010 following the death of the eponymous designer, she faced an almost insurmountable challenge. Succeeding a designer as beloved and glorified as Lee Alexander McQueen is no easy feat - and yet...

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Creative director Sarah Burton to exit Alexander McQueen after two decades

The upcoming Alexander McQueen show during Paris Fashion Week on September 30 will be Sarah Burton's last. The creative director is leaving the British luxury fashion house after a total of 26 years, parent company Kering announced on Monday. A “new creative organisation” for the house will be announced in due course. “We would like to express...

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Alexander McQueen shares creative youth collaboration in Wales

Alexander McQueen has unveiled that in 2020 it undertook a creative educational youth programme in Wales to open up fashion to a new generation, as part of the label’s ongoing commitment to fashion education. Sarah Burton, creative director at Alexander McQueen has launched a number of fashion education initiatives over the years, including...

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Alexander McQueen supports youth arts education in East London

British fashion house Alexander McQueen is supporting A Team Arts Education, a community organisation based in Tower Hamlets in London’s East End, where the brand’s founder Lee McQueen grew up. Over the coming year, Alexander McQueen stated that it will support the community arts organisation financially and extend the educational outreach...

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Alexander McQueen comes home for spring/summer 2022 show

Alexander McQueen returned home, to London, with a magnificent spring/summer 2022 catwalk show in the clouds, inside its very own fashion bubble, with views across the capital from the top of a car park. The British fashion house, part of the Kering family, usually shows during Paris Fashion Week, but since the pandemic, it has instead chosen to...

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Alexander McQueen celebrates retail concept with short documentary

Have you ever wondered how a luxury store concept comes together? British luxury fashion house Alexander McQueen is showcasing the new retail concept that was conceived by creative director, Sarah Burton and architect Smiljan Radic for the brand’s London flagship store with a short film focusing on its inception. The short documentary highlights...

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Alexander McQueen opens ‘Roses’ exhibition at London flagship

The swirling red rose dress that walked as the finale of the autumn/winter 2019 Alexander McQueen show by Sarah Burton and the poetic dress Lee Alexander McQueen constructed with fresh flowers for the end of the Sarabande spring/summer 2007 show, marks the centrepiece of a new exhibition Alexander McQueen are showcasing on the second floor of...

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The Fashion Awards to honour Sarah Burton

Alexander McQueen creative director Sarah Burton is to be honoured with the ‘Trailblazer Award’ at The Fashion Awards 2019, the British Fashion Council has announced. The Fashion Awards taking place on December 2 at the Royal Albert Hall, will honour Burton for what the British Fashion Council calls “her most personal and visionary work to date...

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Alexander McQueen defends itself against royal wedding dress accusations

British fashion house Alexander McQueen is defending itself against accusations made by an English bridal designer that the wedding gown wore by the Duchess of Cambridge was based on her sketches. Christine Kendall, a bridal designer based by Hertfordshire, has mounted a lawsuit against Alexander McQueen as she claims her ideas were used to...

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Alexander McQueen stages London Fashion Week comeback

London - Iconic fashion label Alexander McQueen returned to the London Fashion Week catwalk on Sunday for the first time in 14 years with a collection by British designer Sarah Burton. Models on a labyrinthine catwalk presented flowing embroidered dresses with vivid butterfly motifs, glittery hairpieces and striking winter jackets. The event at...

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Warning: Watching Fashion Shows Could Seriously Effect Your Career

The most disappointing thing a professor can hear in the classroom is the cliché “I don’t like to look at what others are doing.” So you are designing in a vacuum, with nary a care for what the fashion system is serving up and pronouncing great, nor any impulse to react against it, I think to myself. “Why?” I ask the student. “Because I don’t...

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McQ unveils new logo

New York - It's been ten years since the late great Alexander McQueen introduced his diffusion line McQ to the world. It was described my McQueen as, "younger and more renegade, but always signature McQueen." While McQ never got the treatment and publicity other diffusion lines like the soon-to-come-to-an-end Marc by Marc Jacobs or 10 Crosby...