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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

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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
Individual
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Style

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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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I want to empower women.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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There is no better designer then nature
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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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 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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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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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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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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