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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

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
Fantasy
Reality
Today
Enough
Needs
World

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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 be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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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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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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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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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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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 oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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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 can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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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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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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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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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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