Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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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When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
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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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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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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 don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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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I think there is beauty in everything.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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I feel more Scottish than Norman.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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There is no better designer then nature.
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
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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've had good times; I've had bad times.
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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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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.