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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
Brothers
Fairy
Tales
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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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I find beauty in melancholy.
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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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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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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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It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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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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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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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 like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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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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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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