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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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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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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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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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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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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 want to empower women.
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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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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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I am a melancholy type of person.
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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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I am married to work.
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I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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