Alexander McQueen Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there's a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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 believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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 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.
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress ... There's a lot of tribalism in the collections,
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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.
You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes ... that reflect the technology around me.
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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.