Alexander McQueen S/S 2023 London

[vogue28]

 

[Salvatore]

Terribly boring.

 

[brandon J pierre]

This is some of the best tailoring i have seen this season! but there is a lot of early 90s Versace here and some 90S Mcqueen Aswell,

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Naomi does nothing for me anymore. It feels like when anyone uses her it's to try and "save" whatever is on the sinking ship that is their career. It's like J.Lo's versace dress. Enough

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[Phuel]

^^^ Thanks for posting the pics. No way would I be able to suffer through the video.

The show is such an unnecessary and hilarious bore LOL Why have the models walk a mile before entering a steaming greenhouse, where the sitting audience is already fanning themselves from the heat??? What nitwit thought the production was a good idea LOOL

Sarah’s McQueen always look better on the hangers/mannequins anyway. The usual superior tailoring as always aside, the pointless bodysuits and that Walmart blue are just gross. And even more gross still is that final dress that looks like it was made of toilet paper.

 

[jeanclaude]

Sarah MessQueen...no direction, there are looks that remind so much of other designers...and that final dress that looks like the moster of toilet paper coming back from the sewers to kill us.

 

[WAVES]

there’s is only one piece worthy of mention but that print with matching boots makes it terrible (the blue dress).
it’s an unbelievable mess and doesn’t deserve to be called ‘Alexander McQueen’.

 

[gallianostan]

this is so awful. not even naomi stepping out looking like a prostitute from ryan murphy's POSE could save this mess.

 

[Machinegumm]

Does anyone know a good necromancer?

 

[perhydrol]

The tailored pieces are great, but they also show that Sarah is extremely limited with her vision of McQueen and she's been literally hiding behind her skills. The rest is weird and definitely not coherent, the prints don't really make sense as one collection and the rest feels quite Alaia-esque. While Lee himself was a big fan of Azzedine's work, Sarah went straight to Mulier's tenure to borrow some looks. Not to mention the look on Naomi which feels absolutely out of place.

I don't know, but to me Sarah's McQueen becomes more and more superficial with time. It's like checking all the boxes of the most basic elements of the brand's DNA, now with bumsters added to the list.

 

[tourbillions]

Always a fan of her work, i've moved on from expecting something groundbreaking or something "theatrical" from Mcqueen. It's been more than 10 years that that's not what they have been offering. What they do offer now though is experimentation on how far their tailoring can go. I always enjoy how well tailored the clothes are no matter how "gimmicky" or "experimental" they get.

I would still rather have who was pretty much 1/2 of Mcqueen vision than some new designer "reviving"/reliving what they think Mcqueen was.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

The pieces/looks that work are great, and then the rest are just kind occupying space. It's an odd collection because it also doesn't really feel very Sarah Burton either.

I wonder what the design team is like and how much of a grasp these trend forecasters have on designers. This season gone has been really evident where the designer/creative director has stepped back even further and let these predictors be given full gusto. It's alarming.

And yes, I, and also we, can't expect Lee McQueen to be back in full force creatively but Sarah actually carved out a very strong point of view for a good part of her time in this role but now there isn't even an ounce of her personality in the collections. Loved her earlier collections and honestly I'm a sucker for her Spring 2014 and Fall 2018 collections. There just isn't any emotion to a lot of this, and even the pieces that are great are let down by a pretty flat delivery. I mean that blue and red... What is this, sponsored by BIC pens?

 

[THD96]

This is a trunk full of their best-selling merchandise.
High-low asymmetrical hem, bustier dresses, leather biker jacket hybrid, etc... Her usual tricks.
The last dress moves weirdly in motion.

At least the tailoring is good as always with her.

Sarah's tenure has been stale for the last 3 years. The more commercial success the brand become the more unimaginative she became. I mean she has been presented with the same silhouettes for seasons now.
I'm not expecting her to deliver something earth-shattering or go down in history. But please step out of your comfort zone.

Commercial success is not an excuse for mediocrity, at least not at McQueen. Lee presented his Spring 2006, his most commercial collection and it's still better than this.

 

[reese06]

I guess I’m alone in thinking her output although boring is still better and miles ahead of many others.

it is unfortunate that her creativity is so limited and she won’t explore but having experience working for one of the conglomerates, I bet the suits are pulling the strings

 

[gallianostan]

Loved her earlier collections and honestly I'm a sucker for her Spring 2014 and Fall 2018 collections.

those were both abhorrent.

 

[gossiping]

i just feel always so disappointed with this brand lately. it's devoid of emotion. as everyone else has said, the tailoring is fantastic though. but the toilet paper dresses...terrible terrible. same with the shoes.

the red dress on mona is one of the most beautiful i have seen this season however

 

[Ruito]

Sarah Burton on autopilot mode.

 

[gallianostan]

i'm actually appalled to see what this house has become. it should be closed, just as lee intended. one need only look at lee's work at givenchy, when he was at the height of his creative genius, to truly see how leagues apart he and the creatively bankrupt sarah burton are/were: