After years of predominantly showing in Paris, Alexander McQueen is back on the London Fashion Week schedule under Seán McGirr. A fitting return to the city where the house began.
For Spring/Summer 2027, McGirr presented his first Alexander McQueen show in London on September 20, bringing both womenswear and menswear back to the official schedule. It was the house’s first official London Fashion Week appearance since February 2001, when Lee Alexander McQueen was still at its helm.
Staged in the Undercroft of Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, the show placed the collection inside a dramatic Gothic setting of ribbed stone vaults and centuries-old gravestones. The location echoed McGirr’s interest in the tension between beauty and darkness, while connecting the collection to London’s raw, subversive creative energy.
The designer drew on Renaissance angels, London nightlife and Savile Row tailoring, combining sharp tailoring with archival headpieces, recycled silver, sculpted forms and flashes of McQueen’s signature theatricality. The result felt less like a simple homecoming than a conversation between the house’s past and its next chapter.
“London is about being free,” McGirr said ahead of the show, describing the city as a central source of inspiration for both his own creative identity and the McQueen house.
