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.

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 could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing morethan to be in the moment-but which moment?Not that one, or that one, or that one,

I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world.

You can enjoy the beauties of this world, as long as you remember this world doesn't exist.

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

I think I'm pretty down to earth.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.