Alexander McQueen FW25 Dresses the Decadent Dandy

To the strums of 19th-century strings and hypnotic arpeggios by French musician Ange Halliwell, designer Sean McGirr's latest Alexander McQueen manifesto--one riffing on dandyism's refined conduct and the Victorian Gothic's raw opulence--took form at Paris Fashion Week this weekend. At the show space, a mirrored installation by Tom Scutt acted as a portal for McGirr's Fall/Winter 2025 personas, many of whom cut through Victorian architecture like poised characters from Charles Dickens's 1860 ess...