Quotes By Alexander McQueen

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

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

I want to empower women.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

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

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.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

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

I'm not interested in being liked.

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

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

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.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

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

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

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

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.