Chappell Roan Tapped McQueen to Turn Her Into a Screaming Banshee for Corona Capital
For Chappell Roan and her stylist-slash-creative director, Genesis Webb, inspiration can come from anywhere, be it the Statue of Liberty or Divine in Pink Flamingos. But for her recent tour, which kicked off in New York in September, the pair have zeroed in on princesses, dragons, and knights.
When it came to Roan’s Corona Capital performance in Mexico City over the weekend, Webb was keen to tap into the screaming banshee, the mythical folklore figure that foretells death. “I wanted the costume to feel ornate and inherently innocent if you looked at each piece singularly, but the entire costume together needed to give off a subtle touch of horror,” Webb tells Vogue. She knew there was only one house for the job: McQueen.
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Webb took inspiration from Lee McQueen—specifically his fall 2006 collection, The Widows of Culloden; spring 2007, Sarabande; and Irere, spring 2003—and creative director Seán McGirr’s spring 2025 collection. “It was a perfect reference for the symbiotic merge of power and vulnerability, which is what I wanted to encapsulate for this look,” she adds.
All of Roan’s outfits on this tour can be broken down into three looks, distinct for each act. For this show, she began in a long, high-neck dress with an enormous floral headpiece and veil teetering atop her signature red hair. She then changed into a shorter dress, before her final two-piece set—all fashioned in the same white tattered lace with beaded embellishments. “The costume was to be inspired by early-20th-century brassieres, combined with 18th-century medical corsets and braces, which is consistent with the push and pull of feminine softness and rage,” Webb adds.
“The headpiece was one of the last things finalized because I wanted it to be as striking as the antler headpieces from The Widows of Culloden collection,” Webb says. “The team had offered to reference the headpiece with veil from the Sarabande show.”
Roan was a bit nervous to take the stage in the headpiece. “I hadn’t worn a veil yet on stage and I was quite nervous because the headpiece beneath it was not super secure,” she says. “As I was descending the stairs, I was like, ‘Oh my God, please don’t fall, please don’t fall, please, God.’”
Webb also had moments of apprehension. “The scariest part of this was coffee-staining the look before the show myself,” she says. "It felt sinfully wrong, but of all the great designers to live, I feel Lee McQueen would have enjoyed the initiative—and maybe the panic.”
Below, Chappell Roan brought Vogue along as she transformed into a McQueen screaming banshee at Corona Capital.
Ragan Henderson1/8I shaved my eyebrows off last week so it was very easy for Dee Carrion to do a skinny brow.
Ragan Henderson2/8I wore a wig that Lacy Redway dyed and was originally saved for my music video for “The Subway,” but we never ended up using it. This was the perfect time to debut her on stage.
