Alexander Mcqueen Quotes
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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
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