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
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
There is no better designer then nature
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
There is no better designer than nature
I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and (you) lose your identity.
I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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.