Ahead of his much-anticipated debut at Alexander McQueen, Seán McGirr talks improvisation, youth culture and playful aggression in a Vogue McQueen exclusive.
“For me, it’s about letting the light in.” Seán McGirr is in the midst of final fittings in Paris. His debut show for Alexander McQueen is in four days’ time. Downstairs, models are queuing up to be seen, and boxes of clothes are being bustled in and out of the front door, blasts of February air chilling the otherwise frenetic atmosphere. But upstairs, where McGirr is at work, all is calm. Reference boards stand against one wall.
Alums five or 10 years ahead of him, like Simone Rocha, Christopher Kane and Jonathan Saunders, launched brands straight out of school, but McGirr and his classmates graduated on the other side of the Great Recession. Most went after jobs at big companies, and McGirr chose one of the biggest: Tokyo’s Fast Retailing, the owner of Uniqlo, where he worked on the Uniqlo U line with Christophe Lemaire. “It was really inspiring to live in Japan,” he says.
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