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Alexander Mcqueen Inspirational Quotes (117)

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You can get insular with fashion.
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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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I am married to work.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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I think there is beauty in everything.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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