Alexander McQueen Quotes
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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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've had good times; I've had bad times.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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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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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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 can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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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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I think there is beauty in everything.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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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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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 oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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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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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
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I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.
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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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There is no better designer then nature.
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I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.