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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'm not interested in being liked.
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I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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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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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