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Fashion United
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion United
'House of McQueen' off-Broadway production to open ahead of NYFW
A new off-Broadway production centering on the life of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen is set to debut just ahead of New York Fashion Week. Named House of McQueen, the show is written by Darren Cloud and directed by Sam Helfrich, with Gary James, the nephew of the late designer, serving as creative director. A retelling of McQueen's life, the production aims to highlight his groundbreaking work and the personal journey behind it, which is marked by triumphs, challenges, and an enduring creative legacy that will likely resonate with a new generation. 'We are trying to touch on issues that are relevant to a younger generation, issues like bullying, rejection, homophobia, depression, and even suicide in the hope that this is a healing story,' said Rick Lazes, executive producer of the show, in an interview with Vogue. For James, who worked in McQueen's menswear department for seven years and was responsible for designing the brand's now-iconic show invitations, regarded as collector's items today, preserving and honoring his uncle's enduring legacy is vitally important. 'A lot of the younger generation don't really understand the person behind the brand,' said James to Vogue. More than ten years in the making, the production joins the growing list of retrospectives launched since Alexander McQueen's passing 15 years ago. For example, the Costume Institute's landmark 2011 exhibition, Savage Beauty, celebrated his visionary work, followed by Dana Thomas's 2015 biography, which explored his meteoric rise and personal struggles. The 2018 documentary directed by Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui took a closer look at his creative genius, while the enduring impact of his muse and patron, Isabella Blow, will soon be revisited in the forthcoming biopic The Queen of Fashion. Following the show's premiere in early September, complementary production is set to launch in Los Angeles a few weeks later. Titled Provocateur, the immersive installation leverages advanced technologies, including holography and projection mapping, to chronicle pivotal chapters of McQueen's life, from his early years at home and studies at Central Saint Martins to his formative experience in a Savile Row tailor shop, according to co-creator Lazes. The installation includes an interactive virtual component developed in partnership with Dressx, allowing visitors to digitally 'try on' archival looks from McQueen's Horn of Plenty and No.9 collections. Kering, the parent company of the McQueen brand, which dropped the late designer and founder's first name from its marketing following the arrival of creative director Sean McGirr last year, has no official involvement in either projects. However, a selection of archival designs by McQueen, generously loaned by private collectors, will be exhibited in a venue adjacent to the theatre where House of McQueen will run.
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Will you dekh lungi, Sabyasachi, Versace?
Live Events You probably haven't heard of the House of Lungi. Or, if you're a Bvlgari snob, the House of be sure, with the likes of Sabyasachi incorporating it into his collections - his designs often featuring lungi elements in skirts, dresses and larger ensembles - it's just a matter of time that lungis enter the gilded racks of haute you snap out of your Armani-in-the tropics fantasy, you'll realise that this tie-dye, once aristocratised, can be a kilt above the the right designer, lungi can storm runways, swathe the elite, and ascend to its rightful ramp. Consider its design philosophy: effortless, transformative, draped like a Grecian tragedy, yet folded with the precision of a samurai's should Paris have a monopoly on 'fluid silhouettes' when the lungi is the OG deconstructed wonder? Cinched at the waist, billowing in just the right places, it flaps of nonchalance while giving that toga House of McQueen sculpting a lungi in decadent silk; Balenciaga giving it dystopian swagger; Iris van Herpen warping it into a kinetic sculpture that flutters as you boardroom-walk.... It will demand champagne and front-row stop pretending it as merely casualwear, or workwear for the 'informal sector'. The only question is: which designer will dare? Sabya, you fancy a fold?
Business Mayor
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
Will you dekh lungi, Sabyasachi, Versace?
You probably haven't heard of the House of Lungi. Or, if you're a Bvlgari snob, the House of Lvngi. But, be sure, with the likes of Sabyasachi incorporating it into his collections – his designs often featuring lungi elements in skirts, dresses and larger ensembles – it's just a matter of time that lungis enter the gilded racks of haute couture. Once you snap out of your Armani-in-the tropics fantasy, you'll realise that this tie-dye, once aristocratised, can be a kilt above the rest. With the right designer, lungi can storm runways, swathe the elite, and ascend to its rightful ramp. Consider its design philosophy: effortless, transformative, draped like a Grecian tragedy, yet folded with the precision of a samurai's farewell. Why should Paris have a monopoly on 'fluid silhouettes' when the lungi is the OG deconstructed wonder? Cinched at the waist, billowing in just the right places, it flaps of nonchalance while giving that toga power-dressing. The House of McQueen sculpting a lungi in decadent silk; Balenciaga giving it dystopian swagger; Iris van Herpen warping it into a kinetic sculpture that flutters as you boardroom-walk…. It will demand champagne and front-row exclusivity. Let's stop pretending it as merely casualwear, or workwear for the 'informal sector'. The only question is: which designer will dare? Sabya, you fancy a fold?
Economic Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Will you dekh lungi, Sabyasachi, Versace?
Live Events You probably haven't heard of the House of Lungi. Or, if you're a Bvlgari snob, the House of be sure, with the likes of Sabyasachi incorporating it into his collections - his designs often featuring lungi elements in skirts, dresses and larger ensembles - it's just a matter of time that lungis enter the gilded racks of haute you snap out of your Armani-in-the tropics fantasy, you'll realise that this tie-dye, once aristocratised, can be a kilt above the the right designer, lungi can storm runways, swathe the elite, and ascend to its rightful ramp. Consider its design philosophy: effortless, transformative, draped like a Grecian tragedy, yet folded with the precision of a samurai's should Paris have a monopoly on 'fluid silhouettes' when the lungi is the OG deconstructed wonder? Cinched at the waist, billowing in just the right places, it flaps of nonchalance while giving that toga House of McQueen sculpting a lungi in decadent silk; Balenciaga giving it dystopian swagger; Iris van Herpen warping it into a kinetic sculpture that flutters as you boardroom-walk.... It will demand champagne and front-row stop pretending it as merely casualwear, or workwear for the 'informal sector'. The only question is: which designer will dare? Sabya, you fancy a fold?
Vogue
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
An Alexander McQueen Show Will Open New York Fashion Week—Well, Kind Of…
House of McQueen has apparently been a decade in the making. Lazes, who's best known for a film documentary about the boxer Lennox Lewis, admits the script has been through 26 drafts. If nailing the story has proved time consuming, even more will ride on the casting. As of today, a PR rep reports that it's still in 'the negotiation stage.' (According to IMDb, The Queen of Fashion doesn't yet have its McQueen either.) Though the cast of House of McQueen has not yet been confirmed, there are stars behind the scenes. Production designer Jason Ardizzone-West, whose recent and upcoming credits include Idina Menzel's Redwood and Lady Gaga's 2025 Lollapalooza staging, is responsible for the set design. 'His work spans the kind of performance theater Lee was so great in,' adds Lazes. Capturing the theatricality of McQueen's shows and his mercurial personality are both essential for Lazes and co; conjuring the exacting brilliance of his clothes will be the responsibility of Kaye Voyce, who won an Obie Award presented for sustained excellence in costume design in 2016. Kering, the parent company of McQueen, which removed the founder's first name from its advertising last year, not long after creative director Sean McGirr arrived, has not been involved in the project, though adjacent to the theater some archival pieces by the designer, on loan from anonymous donors, will be on display. Less than a month after the New York premiere of House of McQueen, a sister project of sorts will open in Los Angeles. 'Provocateur' is an immersive experience that, using technologies such as holography and projection mapping, will showcase key moments in McQueen's life, 'from his childhood bedroom to school at Central Saint Martins to his first job in a tailor shop,' says Lazes. Perhaps most tempting to this audience will be a virtual experience created in collaboration with DRESSX that will allow viewers to 'try on' pieces from McQueen's Horn of Plenty and No.9 collections. 'As a creative, it's really about wowing people and using technology that I feel Lee would have been excited by,' says Gary. Those who knew him, or know his work well, are more likely to be curious about those 26 House of McQueen drafts. 'Every time we do a reading, the actors get so emotional about it,' says Lazes, 'and as we go into dress rehearsals it's going to continue to evolve until we get to the final product. So, I think it's a little over the top, yes, but Lee was over teh top, right? And it's got to be great. If it's not great, then we failed our mission.'
