Among the garments, sketches and photographs in Mira Chai-Hyde’s archive is a hand-typed credits card from Alexander McQueen’s Dante, Autumn/Winter 1996–97. It names Mira and Kinuko for men’s hair and grooming. On the reverse is a photograph of Lee reclining on a sofa with Minter, the dog he adopted with Mira, in the Hoxton Square apartment.

The two sides belong to different registers of the same life: the named work behind a show and the home in which its collaborators spent their time.

The credits name Mira and Kinuko for men’s hair and grooming, giving a small contribution to a large presentation its own place in the record.

Beside photographs and recollections, the card returns names and working relationships to the collection’s history.

Turn the card over and the formal language of production gives way to a domestic image. Lee, the sofa and Minter return the collection to the rooms and relationships around its making.

For Mira, these worlds were not separate. She lived above the studio, worked on the shows and shared her home with Lee. The card preserves that overlap in a particularly modest form: something small enough to have been discarded, yet carrying both a professional record and a personal memory.

Catalogued as MCQDANTE1996, the card remains with the wider archive, both sides recorded together. A modest piece of paper keeps the show close to the life around it.

Read Mira’s account of the years in Hoxton.