McQueen

You look otherworldly. Like all my girls. This will make you a queen. Like years ago and people wore clothes like weapons like weapons against poor people because even is you were hungry how could you raise your fist against what looked like a god? But I can make things that are weapons against day to day stuff. A girl has watched McQueen’s Mayfair house for eleven consecutive days. Tonight she climbs down from her watching tree and breaks into his house to steal a dress to become someone special. He catches her but instead of calling the police they embark together on a journey through London and into his heart. The play captures the fairy-story landscape of McQueen’s mind - the landscape seen in his immortal shows - where with a dress an urchin can become an Amazon and where beauty might just help us survive the night. McQueen is a journey into the visionary imagination and dark dream world of Alexander McQueen fashion’s greatest contemporary artist. James Phillips''s play received its world premiere at St James Theatre London on 12 May 2015.