Director Alex Marx has spent the past nine years developing his debut feature film, The Queen of Fashion, about the life of legendary fashion editor Isabella Blow. Having been in the works for almost a decade, it was announced earlier this week that the film has officially wrapped and is set for release in either late 2025 or early 2026. 

The full cast has also been unveiled. We already knew that Oscar-nominated British actress Andrea Riseborough will be taking on the role of Blow herself, but now we have learned that joining her will be Dane DeHaan as Detmar Blow, Ncuti Gatwa as celebrated journalist Michael Roberts, The Brutalist’s Stacy Martin as Daphne Guinness, Normal People’s Fionn O’Shea as Philip Treacy and Michelle Dockery as former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman. 

Peaky Blinders’ Joe Cole has landed the role of Alexander McQueen, which follows last month’s news that Bridgerton’s Luke Newton will also be playing the troubled designer in a new off-Broadway production, House of McQueen. One of Cole’s earliest roles was in Skins. Coincidentally, fellow Skins actor Jack O’Connell was also previously cast as McQueen in a biopic that sadly never came to fruition. 

Daphne Guinness has loaned pieces from her couture collection for the film, meanwhile Philip Treacy has granted full access to his archive and Manolo Blahnik has created several bespoke shoes. 

Elsewhere in fashion this week, Kate Moss and Chloë Sevigny joined forces for Saint Laurent, The Row’s £670 sandals topped this quarter’s Lyst Index, and we met the TikTok chef turning catwalk fashion into culinary feasts. Here’s everything else you missed…

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