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Fashion Quotes by Alexander McQueen
- 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…
- 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…
- For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
- Fashion is self confident and fearless.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
- Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
- 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…
- I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
- I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
- You can get insular with fashion.
- I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new…
More Fashion Quotes
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Francis Bacon
- Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey
- I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. — David Bailey
- I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
- The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey