London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.

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.

Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.