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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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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 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 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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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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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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You've got to know the rules to break 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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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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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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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
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I want to empower women.
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There is no better designer than nature
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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 am a melancholy type of person.
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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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