Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2015 Menswear Collection Photo and Film

Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2015 Menswear Collection Backstage Photo

After his untimely death on 11 February 2010, Alexander McQueen’s company owner Gucci confirmed the clothing brand would continue. On 27 May 2010, Sarah Burton, Alexander McQueen's design assistant since 1996, was announced as Creative Director and Chief Designer at Alexander McQueen, with a plan to launch a men's underwear collection. Sarah Burton launched her first menswear collection during the Alexander McQueen ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ runway show held in June 2010 in Milan, Italy and in September 2010, Burton presented her first womenswear collection for the McQueen label in Paris.

For the forthcoming season, Autumn/Winter 2015, the Alexander McQueen menswear collection was showcased during London Men’s Fashion Week held in January 2015. The Winter wool men’s clothing has a wartime look. Military style coats and jackets in khaki, black, grey and midnight blue, some in pinstripe, are tailored to fit, a McQueen label signature. Completed with knitwear and quilting and designer leather details, trousers are three/quarter length, cropped – these trousers look odd.

The label presents an unusual view of male beauty. See a brief backstage film of the Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2015 menswear runway show here -   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gu4hV-3XJQU

Casting Director Jess Hallett. Long may Alexander McQueen’s outstanding legacy continue.

Backstage Alexander McQueen Men's Ready-To-Wear Spring/Summer 2014 Show

Alexander McQueen Men's Spring/Summer 2014 Runway Show

Alexander McQueen MEN'S SPRING/SUMMER 2014
June 17 2013 16:00pm London

Designed by Sarah Burton, Alexander McQueen's former assistant and
replacement following his untimely death in February 2010, the Alexander
McQueen menswear collection for Spring/Summer 2014, staged in June 2013,
forecasts a version of the Alexander McQueen man to come. Period-looking
hair styles enhance the elegance of the garments. There is a flare in the clothing
worn by the beautiful, angular European male models, a movement that makes
sense when you see the show on film. See the venue. Observe the fluid lines
as the look takes shape - DC

"CEREMONIAL DRESSING: THE RITES OF PASSAGE OF A MAN.
COLLECTION 

Faded fabrics that feel they have been left out in the sun and tarnished gold buttons. Hems, lapels and sleeves are unfinished and frayed.  The internal structure of suiting is removed to give lightness.  The sleeves of a frock coat have been ripped away with seams and shoulder padding left exposed.  The silk lining of the suit jacket is introduced as a button-down robe or cardigan, layered over collarless bib shirts and exposed from the sleeves and hem of suit jackets.  Worn with pleated loose, long shorts or trousers cropped above the ankle.

          FABRICS

The iconic McQueen skull motif is reworked into a cotton lace.  The lace is adapted as a print.  Distressed floral jacquards.  Cotton ticking with embroidered black roses or screen-printed by hand to create a mottled photocopy effect.  Washed silk, cashmere and cotton.  Engineered brocade jacquard.

          COLOURS

Ivory. Black and white. Dark and pale oyster.

          SHOES

          Strap slippers, double strapped boots and metal-toe Derbys".
          via Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen i-D magazine November 2012

Alexander McQueen i-D magazine November 2012

In October 1993, Alexander McQueen presented his debut runway collection 

for Spring/Summer 1994 upstairs at the disused Bluebird Garage on the King's 

Road, London. He was greeted the next day by outraged newspaper 

headlines, one of which read 'Theatre of Cruelty', so shaken were the 

journalists and editors by what they saw of the show. The dresses worn by the

deranged-acting models were covered in rust resembling dried bloodstains,
suggesting something violent happening in an unstable atmosphere. I 

attended this show for The Face magazine and was not intimidated. I 

observed the number of journalists and editors who left in a disturbed 

manner before the show ended. Alexander McQueen went on to become 

one of the most significant and inventive designers in the history of fashion, 

so complete was his design vision. Like the uniqueness of the Alexander 

McQueen garment in the photo, in the hands of a genius, clothing 

develops and evolves, that is, it is changed and progresses technically 

  and visually, and fashion is as legitimate an area of design as any other.
The incredible Lee Alexander McQueen 17 March 1969 - 11 February
2010. Rest In Peace.