Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen

I'm not interested in being liked.