Quotes By Alexander McQueen

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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 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.

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.

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.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.