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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
Blood
Every
Layer
Layers
Beneath
Skin
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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I think there is beauty in everything.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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There is no better designer then nature
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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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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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'm the pink sheep in the family.
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