Alexander McQueen Quotes, Thoughts and images

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

There is no better designer than nature

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

If you're an open book, there's no allure.

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible

I find beauty in melancholy.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

I'm not interested in being liked.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.