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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

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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
Nondescript
Wallflower
Anything

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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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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 am a melancholy type of person.
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