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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 want to empower women.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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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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 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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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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