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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
Alexander McQueen
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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Lee Alexander McQueen
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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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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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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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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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 work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
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