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.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

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.

I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

I am a melancholy type of person.