Alexander McQueen Quotes

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

  Alexander McQueen

• You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

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• You can only go forward by making mistakes.

  Alexander McQueen

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

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• You can get insular with fashion.

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

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• When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you’re an open book, there’s no allure.

  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

• There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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• There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

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• There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

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• The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

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• The police need to come down to street level.

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• Sting’s my ideal man, because he’s a real man.

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

  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.

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• Really, what I’m aiming for is world domination!

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

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• 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.

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

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Alexander McQueen (64)

Birth:	17th March, 1989
Death:	11th February, 2010
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards, as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen later attended Rokeby School and left aged 16 in 1984 with one O-level in art, going on to serve an apprenticeship with Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard, before joining Gieves & Hawkes and, later, the theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans. The skills he learned as an apprentice on Savile Row helped earn him a reputation in the fashion world as an expert in creating an impeccably tailored look.

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