A biography for Alexander McQueenhasn’t been written yet.
“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”
“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.”
“You can only go forward by making mistakes.”
“I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.”
“When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.”
“I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.”
“The police need to come down to street level.”
“I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.”
“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 don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.”
“I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.”
“British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.”
“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.”
“It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.”
“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.”
“You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.”
“I'm interested in designing for posterity.”
“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.”
“Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.”
“There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.”