Taking on a beloved fashion house is like jumping into a pool of sharks, with predators waiting to pounce. But for Séan McGirr, at Alexander McQueen, though the voracious viewers might be biting he’s not afraid to fend them off.
Dark but not bleak, heavy but still light, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Fall/Winter ’24 is a thesis on the unexplored complexities and unrealised character of the singular hue.