Alexander McQueen menswear returns to London with sallow gangsters Alexander McQueen marked its return to London's fashion calendar with a creepily compelling autumn/winter 2013 menswear collection. Snaffling Sarah Burton's masculine output from Milan is the most notable coup in this London Collections: Men schedule. Yet as the audience gingerly settled itself into the rickety chairs lining a Dickensian, East End warren of wood-panelled rooms, one question begged itself - why did McQueen ever leave London at all? After all, the capital is riddled with perfect backdrops for the artfully discordant brand of fashion that is McQueen's speciality. Take this collection, which featured a cast of hollow cheeked models stalking those mournful rooms in oversized, elongated suits that made them resemble a mob of sallow gangsters. For extra jitter, some wore cinematic serial killer semi-transparent face masks. Traditional Savile Row decorations including chalk-stripe, Bengal, polka dot and Prince of Wales were cut up and rearranged into a kaleidoscope of nerdy menswear references, under Pinkie-perfect peaked shoulders. Photos: Vladmir Potop Monkstrapped bootlets, stained-glass jacquards, gold sleeper earrings, the odd kimono-ish shift and regimental-flashed trousers were thrown in too. Fun, sinister, and consistently impractical, it was conceptual fashion rooted in classic English menswear, and all jolly good fun to watch - although Burton's parents did sometimes look a mite nonplussed. As the British Fashion Council's new chair Natalie Massenet observed: "this feels like old-school London Fashion Week, a bit like early Galliano." So when will Burton bring the womenswear home too? McQueen is London-perfect.