Dark heroines inspired the collection’s tension between girlishness and grunge.

Sarah Burton took cues from the clubs of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district in the late Seventies and early Eighties for another youthful, rebellious McQ collection.

The indie spirit of youth subculture gave McQ pre-fall an underlying edgy spirit.

McQ Alexander McQueen’s spring collection nodded to punk and club kid references while maintaining a wearable sensibility.

This season, McQ explored the realm of combining contradictory sides.

Sarah Burton mixed the dainty with the hard-edged in a McQ contemporary collection that hit all the right notes.

This contemporary collection’s focus was on inventive fabrications, with a straightforward approach to the silhouettes.

The collection is rapidly evolving from its street culture roots into a full wardrobe.