Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

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.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

I'm not interested in being liked.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.