Seán McGirr - Designer, Creative Director of Alexander McQueen

[99 Percent Polyester]

It’s probably to appeal to the Gen Z market Kering appears to be courting with the brand now — maybe they’re hoping they’ll think it’s someone they’re more familiar with…
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I hate this would work on me 😭 I’d unironically be interested in a Disney collab with a t-shirt that had the MCQUEEN logo above a picture of Mr. Lightning McQueen.

 

[tourbillions]

thats a long article... is it selling??

 

[TaylorBinque]

I mean Burton’s McQueen may have been boring for some, but at least there are always noise. Now the brand is so quiet I thought its dead already

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Sean McGirr's first interview for Vogue:

Vogue

Cringe at all the full-look advertorial photos. They have twice/ three times the photos as the Chloe Chemena feature from 2 months ago

 

[Xone]

The journalist clearly don't know how to edit...i couldn't finish...at nothing interesting tbh...like his collections...this is another brand ready for a change..

 

[Melancholybaby]

Photographed by Campbell Addy
Styled by Ib Kamara


vogue.com

 

[Alquimista]

I don't love what he's doing, but Pinault made the right choice. He's almost ideal for Mcqueen.

And the latest collection is infinitely better than the debut.

Glad is dealing well with the internet noise.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

"... far too much of the Instagram commentary veered into cyberbullying cloaked in the guise of fashion criticism. In the ’90s, Lee McQueen was known to place gilded skeletons amid the press seats at his shows as a reminder of his disdain for their occasional reproaches; one wonders how he might have responded to a 290-part thread weighing in on his draping skills, as McGirr had to endure."

Is the journalist referencing TFS thread McQueen FW24 -25?
It has 291 posts...

I enjoyed the article, although with the same amount of time I could have read Henry James' complete works, but Sean comes through as a very lovable person.

He worked for Uniqlo at Tokyo and Paris, and also for Dries, before moving back to London.
He loves Carl G. Jung, men, London's energy and Francis Bacon.
He thinks Sarah Burton's work was bland and he wants to bring McQueen to the new generation.

The looks that closed his debut collection were one of the most hideous things ever, but at least he provoked some kind of visceral reaction, and to me that is always better than the parades of nothingness that other brands offer.

The improvement in his second collection is clear, so I am looking forward to see what he proposes.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Still not a huge fan (and that article was heinously long…) but I think if he sat down and gave himself a chance to just focus on three major things for a collection he would be infinitely better.

I’m still unsure as to what his perspective is, besides being a bit student obsessed with McQueen-lite. He’s getting better, and there’s internet buzz but long term he has to hone in on things.

I do wonder what the team is like around him and if that has shifted when he came into the role to suit him more than Burton? Only wonder that because if he’s working alongside others that think the same way as he does, there isn’t much room for growth. The great thing about McQueen are the references. Not just the collections themselves but what influenced them beyond the contemporary realms of London counter culture. He needs to go beyond the surface level imagery of those ideas and look at what made McQueen work. The historicism, the allusions to the likes of Montana, Mugler, Gres, Kawakubo, Alaia, visual art, the esoteric, biology/anatomy, and whatnot. Burton tapped into that every now and then and managed to have her own perspective, so I think McGirr needs to do the same.

Not to be obtuse, but what I’ve always enjoyed about McQueens work was always those interests. Where he pulled things from which seemed so abstract when looking at it altogether but somehow all works. McGirr is still very green, and very random, but if he just focused more he’d really get there.

 

[PDFSD]

what can we call then a visceral reaction to a parades of nothingness ? asking for a AI Prompt lol

 

[jeanclaude]

Is the journalist referencing TFS thread McQueen FW24 -25?
It has 291 posts...

I thought exactly the same!

 

[blueorchid]

"Cyberbullying"? Who does he think he is? Sabato?!

McQueen's been a hard house for me to really care about since 2010, to be fully and completely honest.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Kering is really going all out with the designer promotion. First Sabato with HB, and now this... He's been at the house for less than a year. Give me a break!