At face value, playing Lee McQueen is straightforward enough: baggy jeans, a buzzcut, and a T-shirt get you most of the way there. But to embody Alexander McQueen, the iconoclastic designer known for his inspired fashion shows and unbridled creative output, is a more daunting proposition.

House of McQueen , a new play chronicling McQueen’s short life, opens off-Broadway on September 9, and tasked with portraying the eponymous English designer is none other than Luke Newton, the English actor best known for his role as Colin in Bridgerton .

As Newton soon learned, there is a long runway between playing a fictitious, Regency-era ladies’ man and becoming one of the most recognizable designers in pop culture. Beyond the fact that McQueen was a very real and beloved person, whose life and

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