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I want to empower women.

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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
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Women

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I think there is beauty in everything.
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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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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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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 just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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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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 big on women looking naive.
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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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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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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