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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
Insular
Fashion

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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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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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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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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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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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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it
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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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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible
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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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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 can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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