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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.

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
London
Brought
Inspiration
Heart

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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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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'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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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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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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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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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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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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There is no better designer than nature
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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 was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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