Alexander McQueen's creative director Seán McGirr leaves after three years
Kering said Seán McGirr is leaving as creative director of Alexander McQueen after three years, with no successor yet named -- a change that will eventually reach the house's four Japan doors, from its Ginza Six boutique to its Isetan Shinjuku concessions.
Kering said on October 15 that Seán McGirr is leaving his post as creative director of Alexander McQueen, just over three years after joining the London house in 2023, in a statement posted to the group's own newsroom. No effective date for the departure was given, and no successor was named -- Alexander McQueen said only that it would "soon announce its new creative leadership."
Kering chief executive Luca de Meo thanked McGirr for his "contribution and dedication to Alexander McQueen." The house's own president and chief executive, Gianfranco D'Attis, credited him with having helped "reconnect Alexander McQueen with London" and its culture, while McGirr himself said he was leaving "with profound gratitude" for the work of the house's studio, atelier and craftspeople.
Alexander McQueen sells in Japan through a boutique inside Ginza Six, separate menswear and womenswear concessions inside Isetan Shinjuku's main building, and a store at Gotemba Premium Outlet, according to the brand's own store locator. Whoever succeeds McGirr will set the design direction for the collections that reach those four Japan doors within a season or two -- the usual lag between a runway show and delivery to stores.
The announcement gives no reason for the move beyond thanking McGirr for three years' work, and comes less than a week after Kering said goodbye to Saint Laurent's Anthony Vaccarello on much the same terms -- no successor named, a promise to announce new creative leadership "soon." Across two of its biggest houses at once, the open question for Kering is the same: who takes each job, and when the group says so.