Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

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

You can get insular with fashion.

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.