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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
Skin
Skins
Blood
Every
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Beneath

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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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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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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 like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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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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For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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