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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

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
Life
Grimm
Tale
Brothers
Fairy
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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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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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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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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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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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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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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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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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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