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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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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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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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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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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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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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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 was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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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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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I want to empower women.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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