In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

I was always crazy even before the drugs.

I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.