Alexander McQueen Quotes
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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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.
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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.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fashion world's incubator.
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I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... 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.
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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.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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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.