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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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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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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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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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As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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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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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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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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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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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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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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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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