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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
McQ
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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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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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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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 interested in designing for posterity.
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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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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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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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There is no better designer than nature
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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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 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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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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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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I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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