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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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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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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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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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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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There is no better designer then nature
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
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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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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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