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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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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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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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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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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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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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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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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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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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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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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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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 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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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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