Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.

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.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses, Even the birds chatter at dawn.

Don’t waste your life on things that have no eternal value.

May your heart overflows with exceeding joy.

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.