Quotes By Alexander McQueen

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

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

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

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

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

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

I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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

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.

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

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.

I want to empower women.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

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.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

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.

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.

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.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

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.

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.