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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
Alexander McQueen
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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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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 don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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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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