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

Alexander McQueen

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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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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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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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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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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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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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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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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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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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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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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I think there is beauty in everything.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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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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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
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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'm interested in designing for posterity.
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