Alexander McQueen: 'I Want This To Be A Company That Lives Way Beyond Me'

As the final Alexander McQueen collection was shown in Paris yesterday, Fashionista posted this quotation, taken from an interview with McQueen for the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Love:

"People always ask if I think about a concept or the show or the front row or whatever first. No! Fuck off! The client comes first! The collection is driven by what clients want in different parts of the world, so I want them to be able to see it straight away and to judge it for themselves. Well I just think that which celebrities are wearing it, what reviews say--none of it matters if it's all there for people to make their own minds up. I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above the earth."

Comments

[vain jane]

05:47 PM on 03/11/2010

Would you buy a skirt tailored by Plato? But what now. The monks spent months making it with painstaking detail. Then came kids and ruffled it in five minutes. The monks laughed.

[LindaDominiqueGrosvenor]

05:31 AM on 03/11/2010

His work speaks for itself. Pure genius. Maybe I'm gushing, but I adore his take on fashion.

[Kristine Hale]

02:57 PM on 03/10/2010

Having seen his last collection now, the loss of McQueen is even sharper.