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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

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
Death
Good
Life
Oscillate
Sadness
Happiness
Evil

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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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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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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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