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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
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
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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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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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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 find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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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 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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I think there is beauty in everything.
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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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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 am a melancholy type of person.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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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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