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I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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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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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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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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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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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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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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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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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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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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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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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