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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
Fashion
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Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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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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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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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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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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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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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 think there is beauty in everything.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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I've had good times I've had bad times.
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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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