Un-natural Harmony: The Sound of Alexander McQueen with LCO x Holly Blakey × Michael Clark
London Contemporary Orchestra, Holly Blakey and Michael Clark reimagine the music behind the designer’s most unforgettable moments.
Before the clothes, there was the music. un-Natural Harmony: The Music of Alexander McQueen with London Contemporary Orchestra x Holly Blakey × Michael Clark uncovers the tracks, textures and tensions that helped usher in a new era of fashion-as-theatre.
McQueen treated music like another fabric, weaving sound into the architecture of every show. un-Natural Harmony steps inside that soundworld, reimagining three of his most mythic collections – Angels & Demons, Dante and Plato’s Atlantis – as a live experience for orchestra, vocals, electronics, film and dance.
Conducted by Robert Ames and co-curated with McQueen’s original soundtrack collaborator John Gosling, the evening reconstructs and collides the music that powered these runways: from requiems, Barber, Mozart and Glass to cult club tracks, Nivarna, Bjork and Lady Gaga. London Contemporary Orchestra perform on stage as screens, dancers and archive-inflected imagery pull the audience through McQueen’s universe – from church and war photography to holograms, techno and the end of the world.
Two of Britain’s most distinctive choreographic voices, Michael Clark and Holly Blakey, create new performance rooted in McQueen’s own collaborators and muses. New film work by Douglas Hart and Eddie Whelan threads through the three chapters, with overall staging by director @elayceismail.
Premiering at Southbank Centre’s 2026 Multitudes festival.