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I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Alexander McQueen

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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
Designing
Posterity
Interested
Design

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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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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'm not big on women looking naive.
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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 always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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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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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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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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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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There is no better designer then nature
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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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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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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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