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Waists, heels and lace take centre-stage in Seán McGirr’s ‘modern dandy’ collection, as hourglass tailoring returns
Backstage after his third Paris fashion week show, Dublin-born Seán McGirr, 36, was asked whether he was growing in confidence as the designer of Alexander McQueen. The show began with black tailoring, strict yet fine-boned so that the models walked with fluid grace, casting exaggerated silhouettes with pinched shoulders and proud collars, high armholes and narrow waists in inky twill wool. The month of catwalk shows now drawing to a close in Paris has brought a return to hourglass tailoring, and a rejection of the oversized, stretched, unisex silhouettes with which Balenciaga and its many followers dominated fashion until recently.
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