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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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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 don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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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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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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