Alexander McQueen Quotes

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Alexander McQueen

Profession : Designer

Birth : March 17, 1969

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

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Alexander McQueen

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.

Alexander McQueen

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

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

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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.

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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

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I've had good times; I've had bad times.

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

Alexander McQueen

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

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

Alexander McQueen

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Alexander McQueen

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

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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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

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

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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

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