Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

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.

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

Government regulators are another name for police.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

One must take what comes, with laughter.

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.