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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

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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
Works
Design
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Wear

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If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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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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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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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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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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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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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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