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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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I find beauty in melancholy.
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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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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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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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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 interested in being liked.
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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 to empower women.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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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 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 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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