78+ Alexander McQueen Quotes On Fashion, Nature And Provocative

Alexander McQueen was an English fashion designer, known for his groundbreaking, avant-garde designs. He was the head designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001, and founded his own label, Alexander McQueen, in 2001. His designs were often provocative and pushed the boundaries of traditional fashion, often incorporating dark and dramatic elements. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alexander McQueen on fashion, nature, provocative.

Top 10 Alexander McQueen Quotes

1. I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
2. You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
3. There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
4. For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
5. Fashion is self confident and fearless.
6. It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
7. I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
8. The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
9. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
10. 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.

Alexander McQueen Short Quotes

• It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
• Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
• Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
• I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
• Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
• I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
• You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
• I'm the pink sheep in the family.
• It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
• The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Alexander McQueen Quotes About Fashion

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. — Alexander McQueen

The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody. — Alexander McQueen

I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth. — Alexander McQueen

I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers. — Alexander McQueen

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it. — Alexander McQueen

You can get insular with fashion. — Alexander McQueen

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants. — 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 Famous Quotes And Sayings

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. — Alexander McQueen

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women. — Alexander McQueen

I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy. — 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

When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off. — Alexander McQueen

When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows. — Alexander McQueen

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me. — 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 believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity. — Alexander McQueen

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections. — Alexander McQueen

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches. — Alexander McQueen

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. — Alexander McQueen

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not. — Alexander McQueen

These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within. — Alexander McQueen

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

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again. — Alexander McQueen

You've got to know the rules to break them. — Alexander McQueen

There is no better designer then nature — Alexander McQueen

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me. — Alexander McQueen

I think there is beauty in everything. — Alexander McQueen

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time. — Alexander McQueen

I am married to work. — Alexander McQueen

Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again. — Alexander McQueen

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality. — Alexander McQueen

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places. — 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

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex. — Alexander McQueen

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion. — Alexander McQueen

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

Fame should be left to the film stars. — Alexander McQueen

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are. — Alexander McQueen

I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade. — Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition — Alexander McQueen

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible — Alexander McQueen

I find beauty in melancholy. — Alexander McQueen

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing. — Alexander McQueen

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

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual — Alexander McQueen

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life. — Alexander McQueen

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them. — Alexander McQueen

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

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination. — Alexander McQueen

London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration. — Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person. — Alexander McQueen

The police need to come down to street level. — Alexander McQueen

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way. — Alexander McQueen

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin. — Alexander McQueen

I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it — Alexander McQueen

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes. — Alexander McQueen

Life Lessons by Alexander McQueen

1. Alexander McQueen's work taught us to be fearless when it comes to creativity and pushing boundaries in fashion.
2. His designs were often controversial and daring, but always showed his passion for art and fashion.
3. His work demonstrated the importance of being true to yourself and expressing yourself through fashion.