It’s the end of an era at @AlexanderMcQueen. #SarahBurton took her final bow as creative director tonight at an emotional #ParisFashionWeek show that opened with #KaiaGerber and closed with #NaomiCampbell. During her 13 year tenure at the helm, Burton meticulously upheld her late friend Lee McQueen’s legacy of craftsmanship and dark romanticism while ushering it into the future. “This collection is inspired by female anatomy, Queen Elizabeth I, the blood red rose and Magdalena Abakanowicz, a tra

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This evening in Paris, Sarah Burton bid farewell to @alexandermcqueen after 13 years as creative director and nearly three decades at the house. Her collection was a powerful ode to women, to their anatomies, and to their beating hearts. She referenced Queen Elizabeth I, as well as the textile artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, and she dedicated the show to her late friend and collaborator Lee Alexander McQueen, whom she wrote had a wish to "always empower women." Burton thoughtfully carried on his l