I read on The Fix this morning that long-time McQueen designer/assistant, Sarah Burton, will take the helm as creative director at the label. Apparently she finished McQueen's Fall 2010 collection after his suicide in February and has been designing women's RTW since 2000.
Sarah Burton
Seems like a natural move to place someone already on inside with imitate knowledge of his work style and day in and day out access to his vision. I believe her first collection would be Cruise/Resort... curious to see how her influence surfaces given that McQueen's collections always seemed very personal and indicative of his social commentary of the day.
Sarah Burton, who was McQueen's first and only ever design assistant, was promoted to head of design following the acquisition (of Gucci Group). She worked with the designer on everything from one-off pieces crafted for the likes of Bjork, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Lady Gaga and Sylvie Guillem, to his main line women's wear collection - the one shown on the Paris catwalk every six months - pre-collections, small accessories lines and more.
Burton, it is widely acknowledged, was also always responsible for translating McQueen's more extravagant ideas into a clearly commercial reality.
Sarah Burton
