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
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections,
There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
I want to empower women.
My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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.
I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
I'm the pink sheep in the family.
I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.