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
I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
You can get insular with fashion.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
I think there is beauty in everything.
Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
I've had good times; I've had bad times.
Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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.
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.