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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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I think there is beauty in everything.
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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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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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