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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

Alexander McQueen

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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
Disgusting
Places
Beauty
Come
Even
Strangest

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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 am a melancholy type of person.
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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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 don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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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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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.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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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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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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