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Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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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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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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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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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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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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'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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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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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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I want to empower women.
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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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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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