Quotes by Alexander McQueen

About Alexander McQueen:

Lee Alexander McQueen is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.
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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.

Alexander McQueen

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

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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.

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

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You can get insular with fashion.

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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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I am a melancholy type of person.

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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...

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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.

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I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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

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It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

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

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I'm not interested in being liked.

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

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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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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 v...

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

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlexander McQueen
  • DescriptionBritish fashion designer and couturier
  • AliasesLee Alexander McQueen
  • BornMarch 17, 1969
  • DiedFebruary 11, 2010
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionDesigner
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire