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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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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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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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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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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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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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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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I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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 was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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