When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

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.

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.