I want to empower women.

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.

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!

Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

My life is really so much based in England.

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.