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I'm not big on women looking naive.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
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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'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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 don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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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 spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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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 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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