Alexander McQueen Quotes

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Alexander McQueen

Profession : Designer

Birth : March 17, 1969

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

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 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

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

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

I'm not interested in being liked.

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

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

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

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.

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

Alexander McQueen

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

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

Alexander McQueen

The police need to come down to street level.

Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

Alexander McQueen