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Alexander McQueen Fall 1999 LFW: The Overlook

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Alexander McQueen Fall 1999 LFW: The Overlook runway

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The Overlook is named after the hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. You would expect horror, and instead McQueen made one of his most poetic collections.

The audience sat around a huge clear box, like a Victorian snow globe. Inside were bare birch trees, deep snow and a floor of ice. Halfway through the show, skaters in white glided between the trees. Snow kept falling. The models had grey braided hair and a band of silver painted across their eyes.

The clothes were made for winter and they were gorgeous: chunky hand knits, warm shearlings, intricate patchwork, pleated and bubble skirts, and the virtuoso tailoring he never left out. The boots had heels shaped like skate blades. A skirt was cut from silver metal by laser. A bustier of rock crystal looked like a cluster of icicles. And then there was Shaun Leane’s coiled corset, made of aluminium rings fitted exactly to the model’s body from neck to hips. It is one of the most extraordinary objects ever shown on a runway.

Twin girls in matching looks walked hand in hand, the only direct nod to the film. Otherwise the mood was quiet and magical. For anyone who thinks McQueen was only about shock, this is the collection to see. Pure winter beauty.

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Pictures courtesy of Vogue Runway

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