Quotes By Alexander McQueen

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I want to empower women.

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

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

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.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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

I am a melancholy type of person.