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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

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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
Beauty
Anger
Passion

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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I want to empower women.
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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 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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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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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'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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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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