Continuing his exploration of the battle between
man and nature, McQueen’s ‘Horn of Plenty’ presentation (which can be seen in
full here) was a return to a more brutal aesthetic for the designer. Taking
place in a vast industrial wasteland, the show’s towering centrepiece was a
scrapheap from which parts had been taken and made into headwear for the
harlequin-faced models. The concept behind the set was that of recycling and
renewal, a concept illustrated by the fact that props from his previous sets
had been taken and spray-painted black in order to populate the scrapheap that
dominated the stage. The designer spoke about how he wanted this show to be a
retrospective of sorts, one that would mark his 15th anniversary in
the fashion industry and enable him to manufacture the image of his legacy – a story
which is particularly poignant considering that this would end up being his
penultimate complete collection.
