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

Alexander McQueen

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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
Clothes
Style
Individual

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I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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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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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
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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 work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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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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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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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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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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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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There is no better designer then nature
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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