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Alexander Mcqueen Inspirational Quotes (117)

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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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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 earth.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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