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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, 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
Jewellery
Startling
Clothes
Individual

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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 am married to work.
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I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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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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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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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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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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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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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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'm not interested in being liked.
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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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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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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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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