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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

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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
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Clothes
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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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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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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 think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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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'm not big on women looking naive.
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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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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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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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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