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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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Lee Alexander McQueen
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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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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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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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 literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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