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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
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Beneath
Skin
Skins
Blood
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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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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 think there is beauty in everything.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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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 work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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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 just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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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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