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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.

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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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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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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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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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
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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'm not interested in being liked.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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