INTERVIEWS
Documenting McQueen: Tailoring
Alexander McQueen
December 2025
Professor of Fashion: Alistair O’Neill explores pieces from the archival Alexander McQueen collection: ‘The Widows of Culloden’ from Autumn Winter 2006.
Discover the ‘MacQueen’ tartan and hidden details from tailoring featured in this collection.
Watch the film to discover how these house codes are interpreted in today’s signature tailored pieces.
WATCH:
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/stories/documenting-mcqueen-tailoring
Discover the ‘MacQueen’ tartan and hidden details from tailoring featured in this collection.
Watch the film to discover how these house codes are interpreted in today’s signature tailored pieces.
WATCH:
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/stories/documenting-mcqueen-tailoring
Documenting McQueen: Tailoring
Alexander McQueen
November 2025
Alistair O’Neill, Professor of Fashion at London's Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, explores pieces from the McQueen Archive.
The Spring Summer 2004 ‘Deliverance’ collection, reveals the storytelling and techniques established by Lee Alexander McQueen that still echo through the house today. Watch the film to discover how the Spring Summer 2004 collection continues to inspire the house's signature tailoring.
WATCH:
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/stories/documenting-mcqueen-tailoring
The Spring Summer 2004 ‘Deliverance’ collection, reveals the storytelling and techniques established by Lee Alexander McQueen that still echo through the house today. Watch the film to discover how the Spring Summer 2004 collection continues to inspire the house's signature tailoring.
WATCH:
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/stories/documenting-mcqueen-tailoring
Documenting McQueen: Tailoring
Alexander McQueen
September 2025
Alistair O’Neill, renowned historian and Professor at London's Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, explores the depths of the McQueen archive, tracing the foundations of definitively McQueen codes, beginning with tailoring. Examining pieces from the Autumn Winter 1996 ‘Dante’ collection, O'Neill reveals the storytelling underpinning Lee Alexander McQueen's signature precision, rooted in McQueen’s Savile Row training.
WATCH:
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/stories/documenting-mcqueen-tailoring
WATCH:
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-gb/stories/documenting-mcqueen-tailoring
A Hard Man is Good to Find!
The Photographers’ Gallery
22 March 2023
Alistair O’Neill, professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) talks about curating the exhibition ‘A Hard Man is Good to Find!’ - a bold new exhibition charting over 60 years of queer photography of the male physique.
WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKjNJr4rIg
WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKjNJr4rIg