The healing powers of nature were celebrated by Sarah Burton in choosing the anemones and water as motifs in her Alexander McQueen collection for winter 2021.
It feels like now is a time for healing, for breathing new life, for exploring echoes from the past to enrich our future. More than ever, a sense of humanity, of the team working together with a single aim – to make something beautiful, something meaningful – feels both precious and important. We looked at water, for its healing properties, and at anemones. Anemones are the most ephemeral flowers, here made permanent in cloth. The women wearing the anemone dresses almost become like flowers, like their embodiment, their character – but amplified, grounded, radiant and strong.” Sarah Burton (mcqueen.com)
The poetry of the collection giving the different looks of hybrid structures was romantically captured by Paolo Roversi.
