Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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 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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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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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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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
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Fashion is self confident and fearless.
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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 have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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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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The police need to come down to street level.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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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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It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
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I think there is beauty in everything.