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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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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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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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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 spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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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 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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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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