Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. — Alexander McQueen Escapism Copy Share Image
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. — Alexander McQueen Between life and death Copy Share Image
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. — Alexander McQueen Balance Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst… — Alexander McQueen British Copy Share Image
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe.… — Alexander McQueen Fashion Copy Share Image
The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force… — Alexander McQueen Entertainment Copy Share Image
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them.… — Alexander McQueen Clothes Copy Share Image
These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It… — Alexander McQueen Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic… — Alexander McQueen Art of life Copy Share Image
I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places, — Alexander McQueen Beauty Copy Share Image
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life. — Alexander McQueen Artist Copy Share Image
There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back.… — Alexander McQueen Allure Copy Share Image
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. — Alexander McQueen Inspirational Copy Share Image
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance. — Alexander McQueen Earth Copy Share Image
I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them. — Alexander McQueen Clothes Copy Share Image
The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
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 Failure Copy Share Image
If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . .… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
