Quotes By Alexander McQueen

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

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

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 is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

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.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

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 feel more Scottish than Norman.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

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

I am a melancholy type of person.

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

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 a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

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