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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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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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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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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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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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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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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 can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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The police need to come down to street level.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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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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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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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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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 almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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