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!

 

[tourbillions]

You lose the moment you call your critiques bullies... stop playing the victim card and just prove everyone wrong.

He is getting better and creating his world. I dont think his world is for me though. You can only have so many "young" audiences who can afford these thinga.

 

[PDFSD]

so far made and presented is simply not good enough on all levels of concept, make/design and direction.

we often speak of the audiences being less than smart etc but when there is some sort of voice coming out speaking against or not impressed with what is being served these heads /companies will be calling the public out as bullies or not real clients etc

like Phillipe Patek recently did as they presented a new watch the Cubitus and people did not like at all : the owner and designer and ceo of the company said that the people criticizing the new watch can't afford it anyways ......the irony is that the watch presented was to attract the new younger clients.

and if you know watches Patek is like the hermes of watches with real waiting lists of years and minimum production and gate keeping of hero products for only collectors buying more than 10´s watches etc etc

every year i get more and more out of this fashion bs and focus on other things like living healthier and longer and richer for this i don't need polyester bland designer goods with weak concepts and story lines and overpriced landfill goods.

the brand has lost totally its direction and meaning it really died with mc queen in more than one way, we don't need expense halloween cosplay products, if it means nothing or not even commenting on our society as one of the foundations of the brand ethos.

 

[Xone]

Photographed by Campbell Addy
Styled by Ib Kamara


vogue.com

Nice stock pictures...let me guess Getty? lol

 

[Cocteau Stone]

"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.

I enjoyed her first two shows, and strangely spring 2014. Such a curve ball and kind of wrong for her, but that’s why I liked it (and still do).

I’d also commend her eye for tailoring and dress making because Burton has been part of some great red-carpet looks, especially on Cate Blanchett. That I can’t deny at all.

 

[Lola701]

Sarah’s McQueen was hardly McQueen at some point but she was also very confident about her aesthetic.
Sean is not confident yet, both in terms of casting, attitude, signature (cut or pieces).

For me, McQueen is quite difficult because you have to grasp some part of it and push them.

I was thinking about Lee’s FW2005 collection. It’s a McQueen collection and yet, nothing about it tells you that it’s McQueen. Yet it’s part of his heritage.

 

[tourbillions]

mcqueen is more of a feeling than a certain signature cuts although it does not always have to be "dark and goth" (although burton succesfully solified the mcqueen look which mcgirr is trying to demolish). You can't have something dark if you don't have the light. For me that's what mcqueen and burton were at Mcqueen.

At many times I had the mcqueen feeling with burton's tenure, the further away she tried to do "what would mcqueen do" and the more she put herself in the collections, the more i felt that she was doing mcqueen.

But ofcourse im sure many would disagree since they all want the dark, punk, tortured mcqueen which was personally coming from lee mcqueens life. Mcqueen will only be succesful again if someone bring their life into their collections.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

^ A fun pleasure of mine is McQueens Spring 2006. So charged, hot and sexy with some fantastic wardrobe pieces. Smart styling and such a considered casting too that it may have been far from what others wanted to see as “McQueen” but the versatility and conviction still made it very him. It still is just so powerful in all its simplicity as a collection.

But again, the cut and confidence is what made it work, even if it was a bit basic. It was needed in a way, a cleanser for the shop floor, the suits and for what was to come after that.