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.

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.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

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

There is no better designer than nature

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

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

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.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

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

Life is like a cigarette and the world is a cigarette packet...!!!

How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

Eventually, robots will make everything.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.