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I think there is beauty in everything.

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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
Beauty
Everything
Think
Thinking

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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 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 don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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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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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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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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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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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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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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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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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'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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