Seán McGirr is departing McQueen.

The Irish designer was named creative director in October 2023 and presented his first collection for autumn/winter 2024. In succeeding Sarah Burton – Lee Alexander McQueen’s longtime right-hand woman, who helmed the brand for the 13 years following his death – McGirr became the house’s first creative director not to have worked with its founder.

During his tenure, McGirr drew on the house’s archives for celebrity looks ranging from the woodland gown Lana Del Rey wore to the 2024 Met Gala, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” – a reference to McQueen’s autumn/winter 2006 collection – to the bumsters Amelia Gray took to the streets of Los Angeles earlier this year. But he also developed his own take on celebrity dressing, finding muses in stars who fit into his grungy-glam universe.

Among them were Sabrina Carpenter, whose bejewelled bubblegum-pink BRIT Awards dress was toughened up with his signature fraying technique, and Emma Corrin, who wore a vampy, high-necked dress in sheer butter-yellow fabric from his spring/summer 2025 collection to the London premiere of .

Below, revisit Seán McGirr’s best celebrity moments, from the Met Gala to the Oscars.