"I didn't care about what people thought of me and I didn't care what I thought of myself. So I would go to the far reaches of my dark side and pull these horrors out of my soul and put them on the catwalk ."
"You don't discover talent. Talent's there. You open doors for talent. You push it through or you help it along. No one discovered Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen discovered himself."
"He told that mannequin, "Put your pubic hairs in Anna Wintour's face.""LOL
"This is a weird world that you've just shown the finale of London Fashion Week but we haven't got five quid to eat.
That's how it is. People have got to understand that. You're doing fucking fab shows but you've got to start living."
"They have claws and knives and they're throwing everything into your back, which is fine cos I'm a good fighter!"
"You go through your life trying to understand yourself and why you're doing the things you're doing and why you're making the mistakes you're making."
"It's about death and beauty and rebirth."
"My family keep me grounded. Fashion can be a very superficial business."
"Grief is grief. You have to get through it."
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