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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

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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
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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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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I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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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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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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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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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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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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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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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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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 mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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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 about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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