Alexander McQueen Quotes

• I never look at other people’s work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

  Alexander McQueen

• I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

  Alexander McQueen

• 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.

  Alexander McQueen

• I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don’t want to see me.

  Alexander McQueen

• I have been skiing since I was in school, but I’m not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not… black.

  Alexander McQueen

• I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

  Alexander McQueen

• 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 find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

  Alexander McQueen

• I feel more Scottish than Norman.

  Alexander McQueen

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

  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.

  Alexander McQueen

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

  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 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

• I am married to work.

  Alexander McQueen

• I am a melancholy type of person.

  Alexander McQueen

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

  Alexander McQueen

• Give me time and I’ll give you a revolution.

  Alexander McQueen

• For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It’s usually only the intellectual ones who understand what’s going on in what I do.

  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 (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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