Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. Alexander McQueen More Quotes by Alexander McQueen More Quotes From Alexander McQueen Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. Alexander McQueen pieces fashion looks I find beauty in melancholy. Alexander McQueen melancholy relatable inspirational If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes. Alexander McQueen want people looks You can only go forward by making mistakes. Alexander McQueen i-make-mistakes making-mistakes mistake When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off. Alexander McQueen clothes powerful people I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition Alexander McQueen modern tradition stills British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. Alexander McQueen fashion self ideas For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do. Alexander McQueen fashion intellectual people I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. Alexander McQueen grotesque artist The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it. Alexander McQueen patriotic hands thinking I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited. Alexander McQueen party want people I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me. Alexander McQueen fashion men children Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. Alexander McQueen tales fairy-tale brother Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. Alexander McQueen individual clothes should People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality. Alexander McQueen dark inspirational people I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor. Alexander McQueen fashion book school I'm not interested in being liked. Alexander McQueen not-interested I'm interested in designing for posterity. Alexander McQueen posterity design Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex. Alexander McQueen energy animal sex There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants. Alexander McQueen balance black fashion