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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

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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
Good
Menswear
Subtlety
Taste
Style

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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
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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 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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