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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 find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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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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I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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 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 use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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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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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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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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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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