LONDON – Burberry and its latest chief creative officer Daniel Lee are working with director and choreographer Wayne McGregor to create the costumes for his latest work for The Royal Ballet.

The brand new, as-yet-untitled ballet production by McGregor, who’s resident choreographer at The Royal Ballet, will premiere on June 9 on the Royal Opera House in London.

The one-act work is about to a commissioned rating by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, with lighting design by Lucy Carter and set design by the late Cuban-born American artist Carmen Herrera, who died last 12 months, aged 106.

McGregor said he wanted to gather “a stellar team for this extraordinary Royal Ballet project with the late, great minimalist artist Carmen Herrera.”

He described Lee as an artist with “unbridled imagination,” and said the Burberry designer is “creating work of innovation, motion and piercing beauty. Together with his exceptional passion for all types of dance, he felt like a natural ally. Together, with the Burberry team, we’re working on something truly special – honoring Carmen while forging our own evolutionary path.” 

Lee said it was an honor to collaborate on the project. “It’s all the time been a dream to create costumes for dance which is such a passion of mine,” he said.

This shall be McGregor’s twentieth work for The Royal Ballet and follows his revival of “Woolf Works” in March 2023, in addition to the critically-acclaimed “The Dante Project,” which premiered in 2021.

This project is Burberry’s first collaboration with The Royal Ballet, and can also be the primary time that Lee has designed costumes for McGregor.

McGregor is not any stranger to fashion brand collaborations. In 2018, he worked with COS on a project at Pitti Uomo in Florence. COS unveiled its men’s wear capsule collection “Soma” on the fair with a special event choreographed by McGregor.