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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
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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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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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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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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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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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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'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.
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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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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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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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There is no better designer then nature
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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