Alexander McQueen women's spring/summer 2020 pre collection

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Inspiration

The collection is joyful, inspired by the radiant colour and fragile beauty of nature. Endangered and extinct flowers are lovingly preserved. Flora and fauna and the earth’s riches are celebrated. The hearts of women and the hearts of flowers – both exposed and protected - are intertwined.

Flower and petal shapes, rare pressed floral embroideries and the vivid colour palette of exotic blooms are seen throughout. These are inspired by real flora, photographed or hand-drawn in glasshouses. Their extreme femininity is contrasted with sharp signature tailoring and a military aesthetic. Colour is predominantly bright and saturated, contrasted with black, white, amber, lust red, ivory, khaki and army green.

Shoes

Tread Slick high- and low-cut boots have canvas uppers and contrast white or black double-layered rubber soles. Trompe l’oeil wedge sandals have soft leather uppers and a three-piece leather and lacquer or metal heel. Slides have buckled leather uppers and a triple-layered leather and lacquer sole.

Jewellery

Tubular chokers and bangles in plated antique silver and gold are plain or jewelled. Oversized multi-coloured hoop earrings in antique silver and gold are jewelled or pieced with dark-vein resin or rosewood. Oversized lucky horse-shoe hoop earrings in bi-colour metal are encrusted with crystal and finished with high relief roses and stars. Jewelled spiders, butterflies and flowers are preserved in dark-vein resin and rosewood and suspended from metallic rope chains.

Accessories

Eather corset belts are finished with horse brass rings or are constructed out of bands of leather, rosewood and horse brass.

Bags

The Story bag has a feminine polished brass top handle and a cross-body strap and is finished with studs. The Tall Story bag is an evolution of the Story in tote form with shoulder straps. The Myth bag features a front slide pocket and is belted and finished with a new polished brass McQueen lock and the bag has a shoulder strap. The Mini Skull Lock Bag has a traditional polished brass luggage lock finished with a signature McQueen skull and a zip-coin purse attached to the back. It has a top handle and a cross-body shoulder strap. The Belt Bag comes in shiny leather, sits on the waist and has a new polished brass skull lock.