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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
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Animals
Sex
Animal
Force
Energy
Fear
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Fascinate

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For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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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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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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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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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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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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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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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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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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