Alexander McQueen Quotes

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• People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clothes, People, Imagination

  "McQueen Leaves Fashion in Ruins" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2009.

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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.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Life Changing, Thinking

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• The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

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  Reality, Needs, World

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• Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

  Alexander McQueen

  Clothes, Style, Individual

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• You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

  Alexander McQueen

  Tradition, Break, Demolish

  Twitter post from May 02, 2011

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• Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

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  Fashion, Form, Should

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• I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

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  Fashion, People, Want

  "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review - superficially magnificent" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

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• There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

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  Believe, Focus, There Comes A Time

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• There is no better designer than nature

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Design, Designer

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• Fashion is self confident and fearless.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Fearless

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it

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  Sex, War, Thinking

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• I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

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  Sadness, Life And Death, Evil

  "Alexander McQueen’s 'Savage Beauty' At Metropolitan Museum Of Art (PHOTOS)" by Samantha Critchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

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  Inspirational, Giving, Revolution

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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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  Fashion, Expression, Artistic

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• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

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  Cycle Of Life, Giving, Important

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• Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

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  Disgusting

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• If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

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  Dream, Thinking, Lucky

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• I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

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  Baby, Men, Two

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• You can only go forward by making mistakes.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, I Make Mistakes

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I find beauty in melancholy.

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  Inspirational, Melancholy, Relatable

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• Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  "Remembering Alexander McQueen". Interview with Karl Plewka, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 11, 2010.

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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

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  Fashion, Style, Together

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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• If you're an open book, there's no allure.

  Alexander McQueen

  Book, Allure, Open Book

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Want

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• Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

  Alexander McQueen

  Eagles, Engineering, Color

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