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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
McQ
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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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 like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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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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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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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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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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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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