For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
Fame should be left to the film stars.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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.
Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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.
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
You can get insular with fashion.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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.
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
I am a melancholy type of person.
