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Fashion is self confident and fearless.

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
Bows
Fearless
Confident
Fashion
Self

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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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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 like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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