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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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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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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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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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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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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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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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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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