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"The McQueen woman has to feel powerful. She’s never a girly girl, she’s always a woman."

— Sarah Burton

“He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion…he was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it. He was coming in every day, draping and cutting pieces on the stand.”- Sarah Burton, on McQueen’s final collection.

“He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion…he was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it. He was coming in every day, draping and cutting pieces on the stand.”- Sarah Burton, on McQueen’s final collection.

"Lee was very much his own person so it’s impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything anymore. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing."

— Sarah Burton, on the future of Alexander McQueen

“I was thinking about a woman as an object of desire. We go to such lengths to adorn ourselves that we almost become our clothes or are taken over by them. This is a collection about excess - an exploration of ideals of beauty at their most extreme.” - Sarah Burton, Creative Director of Alexander McQueen

“I was thinking about a woman as an object of desire. We go to such lengths to adorn ourselves that we almost become our clothes or are taken over by them. This is a collection about excess - an exploration of ideals of beauty at their most extreme.” - Sarah Burton, Creative Director of Alexander McQueen

"He pushed you to do anything and everything. That’s one of the things I learned early from him — nothing was ever impossible. He challenged you one step further than you would ever challenge yourself. That was his ethos."

— Sarah Burton on Alexander McQueen