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< Alexander McQueen 

Printemps-été 2014.

"A landscape of coloured oblongs of sand more than a little reminiscent of the work of Piet Mondrian and Bauhaus and overhung by a stretched silk sky greeted guests as they filed into the historic Garde Republicaine for the Alexander McQueen show in Paris". Modernist thing to come, mix of primitive shapes, graphic forms and bold colour. There is a suggestion of 1920s in the clean lines and the dropped waist of the, but it remains mostly the rising of the cubism movement, as a revolution, and its major influence, African tribal art.. This was the first main line collection designed by that label's creative director, Sarah Burton. All in all, clothes, a marvellous mix of opulence and restraint, modernity and tradition, form and function.