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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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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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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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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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There is no better designer then nature
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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There is no better designer than nature
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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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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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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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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