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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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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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I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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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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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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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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I'm the pink sheep in the family.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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 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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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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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
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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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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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