Christian Siriano, Bob Mackie and Coco Rocha Headlining Cunard’s 2025 Transatlantic Fashion Week
After a six-year pause, Cunard is once again bringing high fashion to the high seas. Queen Mary 2 (QM2) left New York Harbor on October 31 for the line’s fifth Transatlantic Fashion Week, marking the event’s first-ever U.S. departure. The week is featuring some of the industry’s defining figures, including Christian Siriano, Bob Mackie and Coco Rocha.
Modern Glamour in Motion
At 39, Christian Siriano has already built a career that bridges design, television and advocacy. Since emerging in 2007 as the youngest winner of Project Runway, he has created designs that have appeared on red carpets from the Met Gala to the Oscars, worn by luminaries including Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, Michelle Obama and Billy Porter. During the crossing, Siriano is presenting two runway shows in QM2’s Queens Room.
Coco Rocha, the Canadian model and educator, brings kinetic energy to the voyage. Famous for her angular poses and choreographed runway presence, Rocha rose to prominence walking for Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier and Prada. For this voyage, she has reformatted her Model Camp into workshops focused on movement, rhythm and self-presentation.
Opulence Archive
Few designers embody theatrical glamour like Bob Mackie, known for Cher’s feathered headdresses and Diana Ross’s crystal gowns. He is showcasing items from his personal archive in an onboard exhibition and auction presented in partnership with Julien’s Auctions.
Passengers can also catch screenings of Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion, the 2024 documentary exploring his creative process and design legacy.
Conversations and Curation
Alongside the headline names, journalist and author Dana Thomas and creative director James Aguiar serve as hosts for the In Conversation With Fashion Icons series. Thomas, whose books Fashionopolis and Gods and Kings have shaped the debate around sustainability and luxury, brings a reporter’s precision to the voyage. Aguiar, a stylist and television commentator, adds an experienced editorial eye.
Together they will lead interviews and panels with Siriano, Mackie, Rocha and other onboard personalities, adding context and critique to a week that blends couture with culture.
The voyage and will conclude in Southampton on November 7.
A Tradition Renewed
Since its debut in 2016, Transatlantic Fashion Week has welcomed designers including Dame Zandra Rhodes, Julien Macdonald and Stephen Jones OBE. Conceived by British fashion consultant Gail Sackloff OBE, the program reclaims the ocean crossing as part of fashion’s historic geography. Before jet travel, couture collections from Paris and London arrived in New York aboard liners not unlike this one.
Launched in 2004, QM2 remains the world’s only true ocean liner in regular service. She measures 1,132 feet in length, has a gross tonnage of 149,215, and carries 2,691 passengers with a crew of 1,173. Designed for transatlantic speed and stability, QM2 operates crossings between New York and Southampton throughout the year.
