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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

Alexander McQueen

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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
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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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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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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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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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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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 like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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 was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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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 don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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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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