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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
Individual
Clothes
Style

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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've got to know the rules to break them.
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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'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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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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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
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I want to empower women.
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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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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 like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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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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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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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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