Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBEwas a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards, as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide in 2010 at the age of forty...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth17 March 1969
CityLondon, England
Alexander McQueen quotes about
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.
I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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.
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
You've got to know the rules to break them.
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.