Alexander McQueen Quotes

114 quotes in 1193 categories

• There is no better designer than nature
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
• I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two…
• 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…
• 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…
• Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places,
• There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
• 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 want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be…
• These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying…
• People find my things sometimes aggressive.  But I don't see it as aggressive.  I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side…
• I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
• There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
• For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
• When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
• 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.
• 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…

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