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You've got to know the rules to break them.

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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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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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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I am married to work.
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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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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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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 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 came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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