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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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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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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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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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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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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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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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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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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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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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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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