Quotes by Alexander McQueen

“The pink sheep of the family”

“If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. Im not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.”

“I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... I believe in that one-on-one sell. I dont really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that dont mean much, and (you) lose your identity.”

“I have so much respect for him, and I dont even think he will mind.”

“What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fashion worlds incubator.”

There is no better designer than nature.

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

I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. Its my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. Theres a sadness to it, but theres romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Rap musics been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isnt.

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

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

I dont want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

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

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

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 can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause Ive always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that its late.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.