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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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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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 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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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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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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There is no better designer than nature
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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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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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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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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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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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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I want to empower women.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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