“Life is too short to read a bad book”

“I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.”

“It's a new era in fashion- there are no rules”

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

“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things.”

“I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.”

“There is no better designer than nature.”