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I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
Alexander McQueen
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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.
Alexander McQueen -
You can get insular with fashion.
Alexander McQueen -
There is no better designer then nature.
Alexander McQueen -
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
Alexander McQueen -
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
Alexander McQueen
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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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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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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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I am a melancholy type of person.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
Alexander McQueen -
I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
Alexander McQueen
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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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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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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.
Alexander McQueen -
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.
Alexander McQueen -
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
Alexander McQueen -
I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
Alexander McQueen