Alexander McQueen Quotes

I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.

I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

I have a couture body.

You can't please all the people all the time.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.

In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

Designers from Milan think that 'more is more,' like Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana.

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

Nobody smolders in real life.

I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.

I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent; got kiss myself I'm so pretty.

When I moved to New York, obviously I work with a lot of high fashion brands and I get to wear insane, totally crazy bags and all this crazy stuff but still, I'll always go back to my original sense of style.

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

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.