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

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
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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 never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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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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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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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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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I find beauty in melancholy.
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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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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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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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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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There is no better designer than nature
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I am married to work.
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