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I don't want to do a cocktail party. I'd rather people left my shows and vomited. — Alexander McQueen

The police need to come down to street level. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away ... His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I'm not interested in being liked. — Alexander McQueen

It's a new era in fashion- there are no rules — Alexander McQueen

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

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic. — Philip Treacy

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

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

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. — Alexander McQueen

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

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. — Alexander McQueen

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. — Sam Taylor-Wood

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

Fame should be left to the film stars. — Alexander McQueen

I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood ... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects. — Natalie Dormer

I feel more Scottish than Norman. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

I'm interested in designing for posterity. — Alexander McQueen

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

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. — Alexander McQueen

R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all. — Joe Zee

When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal. — Josephine De La Baume

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain. — Katie McGrath

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

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion. — Alexander McQueen

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today — Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen ... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend. — Donatella Versace

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

I am a melancholy type of person. — Alexander McQueen

Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me. — Alexander McQueen

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. — Naomie Harris

I am married to work. — Alexander McQueen

I'm the pink sheep in the family. — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition — Alexander McQueen

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

I've had good times; I've had bad times. — Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. — Alexander McQueen

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. — Alexander McQueen

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, — Alexander McQueen

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin. — Anne Robinson

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

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. — Alexander McQueen

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

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. — Alexander McQueen

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual — Alexander McQueen

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

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes ... that reflect the technology around me. — Alexander McQueen

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

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. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible — Alexander McQueen

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

Fashion is self confident and fearless. — Alexander McQueen

You can get insular with fashion. — Alexander McQueen

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time. — Alexander McQueen

There's blood beneath every layer of skin. — Alexander McQueen

There is no better designer then nature — Alexander McQueen

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

I want to empower women. — Alexander McQueen

There is no better designer than nature. — Alexander McQueen

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing. — Alexander McQueen

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing. — Alexander McQueen

London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration, — Alexander McQueen

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland. — Alexander McQueen

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic. — Donatella Versace

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them. — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things. — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

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

I'm not big on women looking naive. — 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. — Alexander McQueen

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen

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