After one of his most romantic collections to
date, things quickly turned gothic with McQueen’s following collection ‘In
Memory of Elizabeth Howe’ (which can be seen in full here). Once again the
designer reached into his own past to pull inspiration for the show, basing it
around a distant relative that was executed in the Salem witch trials. The set,
with its red crystal pentagram and huge video screens depicting a naked woman
writhing around in limbo, set the scene for a sartorial exploration of the
history of witchcraft.
