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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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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
Fear
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Animals
Sex
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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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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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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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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