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
I want to empower women.
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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.
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.