Alexander McQueen famous quotes

There is no better designer than nature
-- Alexander McQueen

#Design #Designer

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

#Fashion #Form #Should

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

#Fashion #Expression #Artistic

Fashion is self confident and fearless.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Self #Fearless

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Patriotic #Thinking #Hands

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Clothes #Want

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

#Flower #Mood #Used

You can only go forward by making mistakes.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Mistake #Making Mistakes

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Clothes #Individual #Should

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

#Style #Taste #Subtlety

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

#Fashion #Looks #Pieces

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #People #Intellectual

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mistake

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

#People #Ugly

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.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Self #Ideas

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.
-- Alexander McQueen

#People #Looks #Want

I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Thinking #Clothes #Romance

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

#Birthday #Fashion #Book

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Artist #Grotesque

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

#Fashion #People #Dresses

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

#Tradition #Break

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

#Romance #Fragility #Agendas

The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Passion #Technology

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

#Clothes #People #Imagination

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

#People #Mind #Looks

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

#Style #Want #Proud

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

#Needs #Substance #Earth

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Black #Balance

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

#Dna #Blood #Where You Come

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

#Inspiration #Heart #London

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

#Inspirational #Giving #Revolution

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

#Fashion #Thinking #Ideas

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.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Book #School

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

#Dream #Thinking #Lucky

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.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Dark #People #Personality

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. 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.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Clothes #Kitchen #Saint

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

#Tradition #Modern #Stills

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
-- Alexander McQueen

#People #Twenties #Gone

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Fashion #Style #Together

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Cycle Of Life #Giving #Important

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

#Passion

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

#Inspirational #Long #People

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

#Eye #Technology #Hands