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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
Empowering
Women
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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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I'm not interested in being liked.
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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I am married to work.
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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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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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As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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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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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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