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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
Beauty
Anger
Passion

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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 can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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There is no better designer than nature
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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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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 feel more Scottish than Norman.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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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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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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