Alexander McQueen Quotes
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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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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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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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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'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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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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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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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 was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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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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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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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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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
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Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
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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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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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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.