Quotes By Alexander McQueen

The police need to come down to street level.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

I've had good times; I've had bad times.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

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.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

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

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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