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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

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
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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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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.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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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've had good times I've had bad times.
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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. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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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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It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
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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 find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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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 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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