The timing of House of McQueen couldn’t be better.

New York Fashion Week is upon us, a favored time of year for human peacocks to bestride the streets of Manhattan. Darrah McCloud’s play, at The Mansion at Hudson Yards and booking through Oct. 19, is about the life and work of the legendary British designer, who died by suicide aged 40 in 2010. It may well become a stopping off-point for the absolutely fabulous between runway shows, champagne receptions, and night-time shenanigans.

And it is fashion, though not on stage—criminally—that is the best bit of the show. Off-stage, just past one of the bars in the maze-like warren of corridors of the venue, is an exhibit of 27 original McQueen creations. Make time to search it out and delight in McQueen’s artistry, especially if you didn’t see

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