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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
Designer
Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
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I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
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I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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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 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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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 spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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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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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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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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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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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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