Quotes By Alexander McQueen

I'm not interested in being liked.

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 longevity.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

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

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.

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

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

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

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

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

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

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.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

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

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

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

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

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

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.

I want to empower women.

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

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.