Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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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I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.
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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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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
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You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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You've got to know the rules to break them.
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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.
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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.