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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
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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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I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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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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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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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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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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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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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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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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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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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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I want to empower women.
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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