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- Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen, talks about holding a post-Paris Fashion Week show in London and keeping it sustainable
- She reveals the inspiration behind the spring/summer 2023 collection and how her womenswear is all about designing ‘a woman dressing for a woman’ – not men
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Just when you thought fashion week had ended, Alexander McQueen held a show to present its spring/summer 2023 collection in its hometown of London a week after the end of Paris Fashion Week.
This is not the first time the British label under French luxury group Kering has shown in London or outside Paris – where, pre-pandemic, it used to hold its runway presentations.
“I love showing in London,” the brand’s creative director Sarah Burton explains in a post-show interview. “It has been nice to do things at our own pace and, during Covid, we just showed when we wanted to show.
“It’s great to show here as a British company.”
Burton adds that the Smiljan Radic-designed, bubblelike structure in which the show took place at the Old Royal Naval College on the banks of the River Thames was the same one from its last London show, held on a rooftop in the city’s East End in October 2021.
Formerly the fashion editor of the South China Morning Post, Vincenzo La Torre is the chief editor of Style, the South China Morning Post’s luxury monthly publication. Born and raised in Italy, Vincenzo started his career in journalism after graduating from Columbia University in New York, where he studied East Asian Languages and Cultures with a focus on Japanese and Chinese art. He has previously worked for Vogue Japan in Tokyo, Harper's Bazaar in Singapore and Prestige in Hong Kong. Before joining the Post as fashion editor in 2017, Vincenzo was a member of the launch team of Vogue Arabia in Dubai. He covers topics such as jewellery, watches, luxury, beauty, celebrity, entertainment and lifestyle, and has interviewed some of the most influential designers and CEOs in the luxury industry. Vincenzo speaks Italian, French, Japanese and Mandarin, and is a regular at high-profile events such as fashion week in Milan and Paris.
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