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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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Lee Alexander McQueen
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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 always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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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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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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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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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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