Alexander McQueen Explores the Undeniable Elegance of Lace in its Spring/Summer 2020 Collection

Lindsay Judge   |   06-04-2020

Lace, by definition, is a decorative openwork web first develop in Europe in the sixteenth century. It has long been used throughout women’s fashion as a symbol of elegance and femininity.

 

Something that through history was considered a luxury thanks to the hours upon hours needed to create this delicate design, lace requires the work of a highly skilled artisan. Throughout history lace has never gone out of fashion being reinvented time and time again and always remaining an ingredient to many key moments of a woman’s life; from weddings to christenings.

 

 

One fashion house that has consistently relied on lace as a true signature of the house is Alexander McQueen. With motifs ever-changing to tell a seasonal story, lace is also and more broadly among the most quintessentially feminine and emotionally resonant of fabrics and therefore an obvious choice for the London-based fashion house. For the spring/summer 2020 collection lace played a huge role in Sarah Burton’s designs.

 

 

The spring/summer 2020 ready-to-wear collection features lace interpreted in a number of ways. Ivory Guipure lace inspired by endangered flowers and Irish crochet techniques, ivory lichen lace and ivory lace-work on placed damask linen woven by Thomas Ferguson, widely acknowledged as the nest damask linen weaver in the world and the last mill of its kind in Ireland. Cotton poplin shirting with triangular lace trim and a black leather corseted dress panelled with more endangered flower lace all feature for Spring/ Summer 2020.

 

For this collection Creative Director, Sarah Burton wanted each individual look to tell its own story but come together as one. She explains; “the connection between the clothes is the time it took to make them. I was interested in clarity and paring things down, in the essence of garments – stripping back to the toile. I love the idea of people having the time to make things together, the time to meet and talk together, the time to reconnect with the world.”

 

 

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