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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, 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
Jewellery
Startling
Clothes
Individual

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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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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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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 think there is beauty in everything.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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 is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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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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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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There is no better designer than nature
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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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