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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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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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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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