Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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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There is no better designer then nature.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I've had good times; I've had bad times.
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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.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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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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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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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.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.