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Alexander Mcqueen Inspirational Quotes (117)

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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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There is no better designer than nature
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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