Alexander McQueen's 1997 Interview: 'Fashion's So Much About Kissing Ass And I Don't' (VIDEO)

Charlie Rose recently reran an interview originally aired on November 17, 1997 with then-budding designer Alexander McQueen. McQueen talks about Givenchy, and how fashion sometimes gets mundane. He also talks about dressing women, explaining, "I care about a woman's independence, I don't like her to look so naive...like a man has to have real balls to go up to her." But he also remarks, "I don't feel like I'm enjoying myself so much because I just work so much these days and I sit back and wonder what I'm doing it all for." He says that people see him as mad an eccentric, but he really likes the simple things in life.

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[Stephanie Jevtic]

12:15 PM on 03/04/2010

I liked his interview on Charlie Rose very much. He said alot of poignant things.

[lemondade]

05:53 PM on 02/24/2010

"LIFE IS ABOUT 'KISSING A..'; THAT IS WHAT GOES WRONG IN WASHINGTON DC."

I AM SAD THIS YOUNG MAN GAVE UP ON LIFE, THOUGH. BECAUSE: "LIFE IS HARD. BUT, GOD IS GOOD."