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If you're an open book, there's no allure.

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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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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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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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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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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'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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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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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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There is no better designer than nature
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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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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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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