Object Study
Alexander McQueen's Armadillo Boots
A study of the construction, runway history and continuous private provenance of the pair worn with Look 4 of Plato's Atlantis.
31 August 2026
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Insightful Chronicles
A considered record of objects, people and ideas at the intersection of provenance, culture and collecting. Measured in its language, rigorous in its research and attentive to the life of things.
1995–2010
Archive Study
The Alexander McQueen Archive Collection
More than 600 catalogued objects spanning 1995 to 2010 preserve not only garments, but the working life, relationships and material culture surrounding McQueen's practice.
31 August 2026
Read the archive studyIn Conversation with Mira Chai-Hyde
The Life Inside the McQueen Archive
Mira Chai-Hyde remembers Lee McQueen, their years in Hoxton and the garments, photographs and traces that remain from a life lived close to the making of the work.
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What an object holds.
Through object studies, archive research and conversations, Insightful Chronicles considers not only what an object is, but what it can reveal: the hands that made it, the lives around it and the histories carried forward through its preservation.