Alexander McQueen Quotes
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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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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I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
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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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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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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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Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
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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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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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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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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 have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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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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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 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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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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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 don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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I think there is beauty in everything.