Quote

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Alexander McQueen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
Grimm
Tale
Brothers
Fairy
Tales
Brother
Bits
Life

More quotes by Alexander McQueen

Image
There is no better designer then nature
Alexander McQueen
Image
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.
Alexander McQueen
Image
For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
Alexander McQueen
Image
If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
Alexander McQueen
Image
There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
Alexander McQueen
Image
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.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
Alexander McQueen
Image
You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
Alexander McQueen
Image
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
Alexander McQueen
Image
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.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
Alexander McQueen
Image
It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
Alexander McQueen
Image
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
Image
Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
Alexander McQueen
Image
There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
Alexander McQueen
Image
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
Alexander McQueen