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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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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 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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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'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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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 don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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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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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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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.
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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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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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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I am married to work.
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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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 am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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