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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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You can get insular with fashion.
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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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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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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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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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 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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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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There is no better designer than nature
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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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 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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The police need to come down to street level.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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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