Coat/dress, belt and boots

Sarah Burton now carries on the historical sensibility of the House of Alexander McQueen. She modeled the standing collar of this coat on that of a Renaissance cardinal’s robe, and the shoulder cape and buckles on a style popularly associated (erroneously) with the Pilgrims of the early seventeenth century. The flared sleeves and lacy cut-outs are inspired by mid-nineteenth-century Victorian fashions, which were themselves derived from sixteenth-century modes.