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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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