Alexander McQueen Quotes
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I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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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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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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What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fashion world's incubator.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... 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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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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I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.
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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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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.
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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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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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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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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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The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.
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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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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 feel more Scottish than Norman.