The Widows of Culloden

Alexander McQueen, Fall/Winter 2006, Paris, March 2006 The show is remembered for its last minute. The runway was a square of rough wood around a large glass pyramid at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, and for the finale a life-sized, ghostly Kate Moss appeared inside the pyramid in a billowing white chiffon dress. It was made with film director Baillie Walsh using Pepper's ghost, a 19th-century theater illusion rather than a true hologram. For anyone staging live events, it proves that an old stage trick, set up properly, can still silence a room full of professionals.