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

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.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.