Alexander McQueen
Designer: Sarah Burton

• “Honeycomb dresses, insect-like visors and caramel corsets cinching their waists, designer Sarah Burton sent a procession of queen bees buzzing into Paris.” {AFP}
• “Fashion is body armor. At least it is for Sarah Burton, who tapped her fantastical imagination for Alexander McQueen to conjure up fashion week’s most original show: Mixing insect-like armory with on-trend stiff bar jackets of the New Look, as well as 19th century crinoline.” {The Associated Press}
• “Holy honeycomb! … Burton’s perforated perspective lent a masterfully light touch to even the darkest and subversive-hewing of looks.” {Daily Front Row}
• “Sarah Burton’s Spring ’13 collection for Alexander McQueen was quite literally buzzing with excitement.” {FabSugar}
• “A number of garments–dresses, shirts, and jackets included–demonstrated a clever use of the wasp waist. When could it be more appropriate to revive this McQueen trope than in a collection inspired by bees? Yes, the inspiration here came across literally, but the clothing certainly didn’t suffer for it.” {fashionologie}
• “The queen bee and her hive were the starting points for a collection which was, as is right and proper at McQueen, tempting as honey but with a deadly sting.” {The Guardian}
• “Sarah Burton created a sharp, magical bit of fantasy on Tuesday night for McQueen. … As always, the McQueen workmanship was impressive, but Ms. Burton captivated her audience with the textures and humming society of the queen’s world.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “Forget the obvious–she has, after all, proved herself the McQueen Bee with a spectacular string of buzzy fashion coups. Instead, think about a honey-based color palette, plus the patterning possibilities of comb, plus the frisson of the bee sting, plus the salient fact that Burton is an expectant mother. All of which equals a collection as conceptual and precise as anything from Lee McQueen’s heyday, but with an added–and odd–intimacy.” {Style.com}
• “The pretty, exaggerated prom dresses, studded with flowers (after all, bees need pollen) at the end expressed that lightness best. McQueen has a large list of personal clients who queue for dresses made to measure. They’ll be swarming all over these.” {Vogue.com}
• “This really was a perfect collection–taking honey in all its forms and working it up into the most beautiful clothes.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “Less than a day from the close of a grueling, seemingly endless fashion season, it seemed fitting (if perversely so) to celebrate those bastions of hard work and distinctive, functional design–bees.” {WWD}