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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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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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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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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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 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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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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