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

Alexander McQueen

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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
Anger
Passion
Beauty

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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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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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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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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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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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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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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
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I am married to work.
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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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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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