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McQueen Comes Home: First London Show in 25 Years
The house Lee McQueen founded shows in London on 20 September for the first time since 2001 — Sean McGirr's SS27, womenswear and menswear on one runway.
Some homecomings are bigger than a schedule slot. Alexander McQueen will show its Spring/Summer 2027 collection at London Fashion Week on Sunday 20 September — the house's first London presentation since it left for the Paris calendar in 2001. Twenty-five years. The label Lee McQueen founded in this city finally shows at home again.
The show belongs to Sean McGirr — his first London show and his fifth ready-to-wear collection as creative director. It will put womenswear and menswear on one runway, and the SS27 collection is expected to draw from the McQueen archive: elegant tailoring, dark romanticism, sophisticated occasionwear. The British Fashion Council's provisional September schedule confirms the return as a headline moment of the week.
The house that London built, back on a London runway after a quarter of a century.
It is hard to overstate what this does for the September schedule. London Fashion Week has spent years watching its biggest names show elsewhere; McQueen returning — the same September that brings Burberry back and hands Mulberry to Christopher Kane — reads as a signal that the gravitational pull has reversed. The archive this house draws on was made in this city. On 20 September, the work answers to it again.