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Naomi Campbell walks the runway at the Alexander McQueen spring/summer 2023 show at the Old Royal Naval College in London, England. Photo: Getty Images

Published: 1:08pm, 12 Oct 2022Updated: 10:59am, 14 Oct 2022

Just when you thought fashion week had ended, Alexander McQueen held a show to present its spring/summer 2023 collection in its hometown of London a week after the end of Paris Fashion Week.

This is not the first time the British label under French luxury group Kering has shown in London or outside Paris – where, pre-pandemic, it used to hold its runway presentations.

“I love showing in London,” the brand’s creative director Sarah Burton explains in a post-show interview. “It has been nice to do things at our own pace and, during Covid, we just showed when we wanted to show.

“It’s great to show here as a British company.”

The staging for the show took place inside a transparent bubble designed by architect Smiljan Radic.

Burton adds that the Smiljan Radic-designed, bubblelike structure in which the show took place at the Old Royal Naval College on the banks of the River Thames was the same one from its last London show, held on a rooftop in the city’s East End in October 2021.