Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
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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.
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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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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.
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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 like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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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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There is no better designer then nature.
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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'm interested in designing for posterity.
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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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I've had good times; I've had bad times.
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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 feel more Scottish than Norman.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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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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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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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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London’s where I was brought up. It’s where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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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.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.