Alexander McQueen Quotes

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.

You can get insular with fashion.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

I am a melancholy type of person.

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

The police need to come down to street level.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

I'm not interested in being liked.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

I am married to work.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

I've had good times; I've had bad times.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.