The mirrored portal jutting out at an odd angle from a flight of wooden stairs told us we would be time traveling. Seán McGirr had Victorian dandies in mind for his new McQueen collection. “I started with this book I’ve always been obsessed with, Charles Dickens’s Night Walks, about this character who is an insomniac and ends up strolling around London until dawn,” McGirr said.
“It kind of got me thinking about this idea of a flaneur, someone who is very self assured and knows themselves really, really well, which for me is a strength of McQueen. You know, it’s always this conviction of character.”Ads for McGirr’s spring McQueen collection are posted all over Paris: in bus kiosks, on walls—you can’t miss them.
Fall was his third runway show at the label and his most confident. In between last season and this one, he’s had a string of red carpet wins, most recently with Miley Cyrus wearing a black embroidered mock neck halter gown of his design to the Oscars last Sunday. In a TikTok making the rounds, when a photographer shouts, “beautiful dress,” Cyrus responds by saying, “Isn’t it? Some would say the best.
” That kind of exposure can boost a young designer and a brand.Rarely do you hear a whoop at a fashion show, but that’s how this one got started. The spontaneous cheer could be heard as the first model walked out of the portal in extreme pointy-toed boots and a peak-shouldered coat, with a lace ruff framing her face.
The tailoring here fo.
