Alexander McQueen Quotes
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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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Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
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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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You can get insular with fashion.
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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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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 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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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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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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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I'm not big on women looking naive.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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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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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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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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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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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.