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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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There is no better designer then nature
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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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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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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 almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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