고정 헤더 영역
상세 컨텐츠
본문
It was young people who raised the curtains on Sarah Burton’s fall show for. In an almost ceremonial moment, perhaps not quite registered by the crowd, she asked the black-clad junior members of her teams, and students from local schools in Paris, to hoist the woven hangings alongside the runway. Their taking part, however unnoticed, had a resonance which ran through a powerfully evocative show; her first which brought a down-to-earth sense of young womanhood to the magic of McQueen.
Sarah Burton has always had an affinity for nature, and for tuning into history. Whilst she worked for Alexander Lee McQueen—he took her on as his first and only assistant when she was a Central Saint Martins textiles student—she grew into his trusted researcher and a fanatical archivist of all his work.
Coming Soon: Alexander Mcqueen For Mac 2017
As soon as she stepped up to replace him, her own interest in celebrating the mysterious powers of nature has been behind much of her work. Her creative breakthrough has come now she has decided to get out in the open air of landscapes and communities in far-flung corners of Britain.
“I felt this sense of groundedness, of needing to feel the land, and tradition,” she said.
