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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
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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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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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There is no better designer than nature
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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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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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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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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'm the pink sheep in the family.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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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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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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I want to empower women.
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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