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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.
Alexander McQueen
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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Lee Alexander McQueen
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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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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 was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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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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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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