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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.
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 am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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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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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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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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The police need to come down to street level.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
Alexander McQueen
Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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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.
Alexander McQueen
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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