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I'm the pink sheep in the family.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
Pink
Sheep
Inspire
Family

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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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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 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 think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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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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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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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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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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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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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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