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.

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.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There is no better designer than nature

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

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.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants but bad masters.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

There's always something about home that's special.

From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.