Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Alexander McQueen

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Alexander McQueen

I am married to work.

Alexander McQueen

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. 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.

Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen