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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
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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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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 find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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There is no better designer then nature
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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