“Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.” PeopleThinkingPersonsDoneHappensCareJobsFashionNormalRelateDesignerFairyTake MeFind MeFashion DesignerAiry Author:Alexander McQueen
“I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.” MenWayWantTryingMadeTwoHardShowsWantedSidesBabyMetsBedClothesMovedDinnerSexualityTreatedSinister Author:Alexander McQueen
“Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.” PeopleIfsWantMadeI CanRememberCan DoForgetCreativityChangedPreparedCome UpCleverDesignerClientsUp To You Author:Alexander McQueen
“With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket?” WantImportantShowsThreeHouseCan DoCreativityBuiltDressesIncrediblesButtonsJacketsFingertipsDo Whatever You WantMcqueen Author:Sarah Burton
“The McQueen woman doesn't want to feel casual. It's not that kind of world. When you put on the clothes, they make you stand differently, feel differently. It was about how to do that but make it feel light. I've always been part of Lee's romantic side, that's what I love.” WorldWantFeelsKindLightSidesClothesCasualMcqueen Author:Sarah Burton
“I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsTryingMovingHouseRelevantDesirableNewnessTime Goes ByMcqueen Author:Sarah Burton
“Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything any more. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing.” ThinkingKnowsWantYearsBelieveMeanPersonsStillsReasonWould BeWantedRomanceHouseNamesI BelieveCreativityForeverImpossibleHundredStayingModernityMcqueen Author:Sarah Burton
“In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.” WorldEndsStruggleIllusionBelieverThis LifeNo FearDepartureHere I AmHave No FearLife StruggleTrue BelieverCognizant Author:King Hussein I
“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.” PoetMathematicsPatternsMathPainterMathematicalMakersMathematicianMath And ScienceOriginal IdeasMathematics And ScienceMath EducationMathematics By MathematiciansGood MathMath Is LikeMath And Music Book:A Mathematician's Apology Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!” IfsGivingShotsGood TimesHaving A Good TimeBest Shot Author:Melanie Chisholm