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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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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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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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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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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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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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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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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
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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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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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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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
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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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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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