Mcqueen Alexander Quotes & Sayings

You can get insular with fashion. — Alexander McQueen

Fame should be left to the film stars. — Alexander McQueen

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world. — 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

It's a new era in fashion- there are no rules — Alexander McQueen

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

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

Fashion is self confident and fearless. — Alexander McQueen

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing. — Alexander McQueen

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss. — Anna Wintour

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. — 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

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. — Alexander McQueen

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.' — Aimee Mullins

There is no better designer than nature. — Alexander McQueen

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style. — Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent. — Hamish Bowles

My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them ... The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O'Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really. — Alexander McQueen

I am married to work. — Alexander McQueen

Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said. — Maureen Callahan

Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me. — Alexander McQueen

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination! — Alexander McQueen

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

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man. — Alexander McQueen

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back. — Alexander McQueen

I'm the pink sheep in the family. — Alexander McQueen

I feel more Scottish than Norman. — Alexander McQueen

Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt'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

There's blood beneath every layer of skin. — Alexander McQueen

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic. — Donatella Versace

When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal. — Josephine De La Baume

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. — 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

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

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. — 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

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 — 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

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are. — Alexander McQueen

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual — Alexander McQueen

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

I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood ... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects. — Natalie Dormer

I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets. — Ashley Benson

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex. — Alexander McQueen

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar. — Brittany Snow

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. — Naomie Harris

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

The police need to come down to street level. — 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

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

I want to empower women. — Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. — Alexander McQueen

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 — Alexander McQueen

I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth. — 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

Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity. — Francois-Henri Pinault

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

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste. — 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

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

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

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

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work. — Alexander McQueen

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin. — Anne Robinson

I've had good times; I've had bad times. — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. — Alexander McQueen

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

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. — Alexander McQueen

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. — Alexander McQueen

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

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. — Alexander McQueen

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It's so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women. — Alexander McQueen

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

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

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. — Alexander McQueen

People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano. — Anna Wintour

I'm not big on women looking naive. — 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

I am a melancholy type of person. — Alexander McQueen

I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes ... That's mundane and it's old hat. Let's break down some barriers. — Alexander McQueen

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

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not ... black. — Alexander McQueen

London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration, — 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

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today — Alexander McQueen

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. — 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

Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung] was offsite, but it was very intimate. It wasn't the way it is today where you have a thousand people at the show. You may have had 200 to 250 and it was really the trade and you know fashion greats. — Roopal Patel

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things. — Alexander McQueen

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

I'm not interested in being liked. — Alexander McQueen