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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

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
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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 work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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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'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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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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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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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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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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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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