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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
Beneath
Skin
Skins
Blood
Every
Layer
Layers

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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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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 think there is beauty in everything.
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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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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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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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I'm not interested in being liked.
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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 feel more Scottish than Norman.
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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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