Alexander McQueen
Designer: Sarah Burton

• “A transporting display of Burton’s creativity and the McQueen atelier’s incredible craft. Once the ideas trickle down to knits and accessories, we’ll see how this divine inspiration translates to the rest of us.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “Rebelling against the age of austerity, Alexander McQueen turned to the embellished excess of England’s Elizabeth I.” [AP]
• “Offered futuristic takes on ecclesiastical dress.” [The Daily Beast]
• “Great things often come in small packages. Such was the case for Sarah Burton’s magnificent but petite collection for Alexander McQueen.” [Daily Front Row]
• “Sarah Burton is currently on maternity leave, so we’ll excuse the brevity. Yet it would have been fascinating to see how she worked her Tudor theme into something more contemporary.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “We perched silently on mirrored cubes. Silent because this was breathtaking.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “The ornate ruffs and lavishly cartridge-pleated skirts were redolent of pomp and ceremony.” [The Guardian]
• “Highly ornamental.” [The Independent]
• “The McQueen codes were all melded into this tiny show: a corset densely decorated with pearls, while another fantastically decorated bodice disappeared into a voluminous regal cape with raw hemline.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “The small collection was beautiful but exasperating. It will be great when Ms. Burton is back with her shears.” [The New York Times]
• “In just ten outfits the Alexander McQueen brand once again stunned the fashion set with a collection that was pure haute couture in both its concept and execution.” [NOWFASHION]
• “Burton turned out some truly stunning works whose beauty defies everything that is current and conventional.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “There was no way to slot the ten outfits that were shown as Alexander McQueen’s Fall collection into the general spectrum of the season.” [Style.com]
• “Sometimes, like at the small but absolutely exquisite Alexander McQueen presentation shown at the giddy-making gilded splendor of the Opéra Comique, fashion is about that moment when, what you are seeing before you is so magically transportative that you catch your breath, then forget to breathe out; that it goes beyond any kind of cerebral comprehension and instead causes an intense and instant emotional connection.” [Vogue.com]
• “On the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week Sarah Burton delievered the ultimate performance in fashion, bringing Elizabethan history back to life for an Alexander McQueen collection that was High Church meets Ballets Russes meets Virgin Queen–and the most ornate and incredible theatrical spectacular.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “At McQueen, dresses literally fit for a queen.” [Wmagazine.com]
• “Hallelujah! That word applies not just to the ecclesiastical motif of Sarah Burton’s exquisite Alexander McQueen presentation, but to what a designer can do with 10 looks and a thought in her head.” [WWD]