The Manta Bag descends from a 2010 silhouette Lee Alexander McQueen built around the anatomy of a manta ray. Sixteen years later, Tim Walker shoots it like it never left the ocean.

Tim Walker shot the Manta Bag campaign for Alexander McQueen in an otherworldly waterscape, channeling the quiet beneath the surface. For a bag that takes its name and its shape from a manta ray, the setting tracks. Every image in the lineup leans into that same energy: arresting, ethereal, unhurried. McQueen called it harnessing the power and beauty of nature, and Walker delivered exactly that.

The bag itself pulls from the house’s own archive. The De Manta, a silhouette first introduced for Spring/Summer 2010, laid the groundwork. McQueen’s fascination with the natural world has always run deep, and this is the latest translation: the form of a manta ray rendered as an angular, folded silhouette in leather. Geometric lines carry the tensions the brand has always operated within, sculptural and sharp, the natural clashing with the urban. The house calls it innovating from the archives. The bag calls it earning its place.

It comes in black, red, and metallic gunmetal leather, each dressed with pearl, crystal, and chandelier chain charms. Sculptural as it reads, McQueen built it for everyday use. The Manta is available now through the McQueen website.