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 have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.
What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fashion world's incubator.