There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game. Alexander McQueen More Quotes by Alexander McQueen More Quotes From Alexander McQueen 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 I think I should be a president. President of the United States. Alexander McQueen united-states president thinking I'm not big on women looking naive. Alexander McQueen naive bigs I think there is beauty in everything. Alexander McQueen thinking I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are. Alexander McQueen admire people My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really. Alexander McQueen fashion beautiful beach Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination! Alexander McQueen world-domination domination world I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches. Alexander McQueen psych mind people I am a melancholy type of person. Alexander McQueen melancholy type persons Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me. Alexander McQueen technology eye hands When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows. Alexander McQueen embroidery pieces looks For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut. Alexander McQueen cutting long thinking 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 kitchen clothes saint When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution Alexander McQueen technology cells mistake The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody. Alexander McQueen passion fashion technology I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design. Alexander McQueen clothes people thinking You can get insular with fashion. Alexander McQueen fashion You've got to know the rules to break them. Alexander McQueen break knows I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me. Alexander McQueen want I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them. Alexander McQueen clothes important long
