Alexander McQueen
The focus of tonight's extravaganza in Paris's outer limits was the film McQueen had directed, which was projected onto the facets of an inverted pyramid, which hung over a red pentagram traced on the gravelly floor below, upon which the models walked. This opening sequence relates to the theme of the collection: the Salem witches. In a stroke of extraordinary coincidence -given his taste for things dark and dramatic- McQueen's genealogist mother has managed to trace a connection between McQueen and three of the women hung as witches in Salem. His Autumn/Winter show was dedicated to one of them, Elizabeth How. Guests were given copies of his family tree and of her death warrant on arrival.