Having started his career as an apprentice tailor on Saville Row at celebrated tailors ‘Anderson and Sheppard’ and later ‘Gieves and Hawkes’, it seems fitting that the brand baring the British fashion icon’s name is soon to open on Saville Row. The store will offer menswear and accessories from the Alexander McQueen range. Bespoke suits will also be available to buy in a creative partnership with ‘Huntsman’. Some pieces which will be availible made-to measure were showcased in Milan at the Autumn/Winter 2012 collection show. The menswear collections, which are traditionally shown in Milan or Paris, are to be shown in London from January 2013, which is highly appropriate for such an iconic British brand. McQ, a diffusion line has also opened at Dover Street Market after being moved in-house in November 2011 and is also shown in London.
It seems Sarah Burton is going from strength to strength with her entrepreneurial approach to the McQueen label and whilst I have not always been her biggest fan (- I’m not a lover of her s/s 2013 range for Alexander McQueen at all!) I do feel that the opening of the shop on Saville Row pays great homage to the incredible talent that was Lee McQueen.
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