On Saturday evening, Seán McGirr showed his sophomore collection for Alexander McQueen inside Paris École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. There, Tom Scott built a purposefully tense installation—a steel-plate path poking out from a monolithic structure and from under crushed tiles—for the visionary’s banshee-inspired Spring 2025 designs to meet the world. “The banshee is rooted in the history of McQueen, but it’s also a story that I grew up with, so it feels deeply personal to me,” said the Irish designer, who remembers his mother talking about the folkloric spirit’s cries of solitary as a child.
“For me, she has come to represent something real and potent now.“ A post shared by HYPEBEAST Style (@hypebeaststyle) To a soundtrack of British artists from all different decades and genres, McGirr’s grand fashion manifesto made sense. In mode, the collection included tailoring subverts of the British suit, hand-stitched cobweb lace details, pinched and heightened shoulders, cursive collars on Jermyn Street shirting and mohair silhouettes woven in British mills.
McGirr employed hand-treated silks, including jacquard-woven washed silk organza and silk creponne in myriad muted tones, to create his shining eveningwear: royal lapels on blazers and form-flattering torsos on fluffy dresses included. Embroidery, meanwhile, landed on coats and gowns alike, with original banshee artwork reshaped via silver metal sequins, silver bullion and 3D gold metal detaili.
