Elizabeth Taylor Would Adore Sarah Burton's Alexander McQueen Resort 2021 Collection

Elizabeth Taylor Would Adore Sarah Burton's Alexander McQueen Resort 2021 Collection

I kept seeing Elizabeth Taylor wearing Sarah Burton’s Alexander McQueen Resort 2021 collection as if it burst in full bloom from the head of famed, old-Hollywood costume designer Elizabeth Head. I’m not alone in seeing that visual connection — 50’s and early 60’s women of means, who played boogie-woogie on the piano, read Tennessee Williams, and drank too many martinis. But never before sundown.

A trompe l’oeil print of 1950s photographic roses defines the mood of cocktail elegance — but never prim and proper. These women were inclined to push the envelope — even when they had no idea where they were going.

“This collection was designed during lockdown.” the notes accompanying the Alexander McQueen Resort Lookbook began. “It is made predominantly out of stock fabric: overprinted, overdyed—renewed.”