Alexander McQueen Quotes

One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

My beauty icons - and this sounds cheesy - have a beauty that comes from inside.

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.

The face of beauty literally needs to change, which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well.

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

Every woman is beautiful in her own way and I don't know why people have norms and ideas on how beauty is perceived.

I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.

I'm not conventionally beautiful, but what is beauty? Beauty is whatever you want it to be.

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It's not a number at all.

I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

Real beauty is my aim.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better.