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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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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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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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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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I think there is beauty in everything.
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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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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 am a melancholy type of person.
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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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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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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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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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The police need to come down to street level.
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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'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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