Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Alexander McQueen

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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

Alexander McQueen

life-changing fashion thinking

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality toda... by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

reality world needs

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that... by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

clothes imagination people

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.

Alexander McQueen

demolish tradition break

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

Alexander McQueen

there-comes-a-time focus believe

There is no better designer than nature by Alexander McQueen

There is no better designer than nature

Alexander McQueen

designer design fashion

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

Alexander McQueen

cycle-of-life important giving

I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

Alexander McQueen

baby men two

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonm... by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

fashion form should

I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it

Alexander McQueen

war sex thinking

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good a... by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

life-and-death sadness evil

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely... by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

mind people looks

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Alexander McQueen

twenties gone people

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin. by Alexander McQueen

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

Alexander McQueen

layers skins blood

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

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

Alexander McQueen

revolution inspirational giving

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.

Alexander McQueen

lucky dream thinking

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

Alexander McQueen

artistic fashion expression

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

fashion want people

Fashion is self confident and fearless. by Alexander McQueen

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

Alexander McQueen

fearless fashion self

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual by Alexander McQueen

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

Alexander McQueen

individual clothes style