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

Alexander McQueen

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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
Menswear
Subtlety
Taste
Style
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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'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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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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