Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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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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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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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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.
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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 have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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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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Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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 like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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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There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.
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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.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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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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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 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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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.