Alexander McQueen announces new creative director Seán McGirr – who previously worked at JW Anderson – just days after Sarah Burton’s exit from the British house
Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsThank you for signing up to Wallpaper. You will receive a verification email shortly.Just days after Sarah Burton presented her final collection for the British house at Paris Fashion Week, Alexander McQueen has announced her successor – Irish designer Seán McGirr, who was formerly head of men’s collections at JW Anderson.
McGirr, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, is a graduate of London art school Central Saint Martins – like house founder Lee McQueen. On graduating, he worked for Tokyo-based brand Uniqlo creating men’s collections under Christopher Lemaire; later, he would work on Dries Van Noten’s womenswear collections in Antwerp.
A somewhat unexpected appointment – other more well-known names had circulated prior to today’s announcement – the move echoes the appointment of Sabato De Sarno at Gucci, another one of Kering’s houses. Having previously led men’s and women’s collections at Valentino under Pierpaolo Piccioli, De Sarno was a name known by few outside of fashion’s inner sanctum. He presentedlast month in Milan with an astute collection he said was inspired by ‘the joy of life, of passion, of humanity, of people’.
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