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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
Empower
Empowering
Women

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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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I am married to work.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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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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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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