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Alexander McQueen [1969-2010] English

Rank: 101
Designer, Fashion Designer

Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label.

Design, Women, Age, Beauty, Business, Good, Inspirational, Respect, Time, Work

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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.		101
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.		102
I've had good times; I've had bad times.	Good	103
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.	Time	104
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.		105
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.	Business	106
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.	Women	107
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.	Age	108
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.		109
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.	Women	110
I'm not interested in being liked.		111
The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.		112
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.		113
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.		114
I am a melancholy type of person.		115
Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!		116
As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.		117
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.		118
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.	Work	119
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.		120
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.		121
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.		122
You can only go forward by making mistakes.		123
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.		124
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.		125
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.	Beauty	126
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.	Inspirational	201
I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.		202
For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.		203
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.	Design	204
I am married to work.		205
Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.		206
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.		207
I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.		208
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.		209
I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.	Respect	210
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.		211
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.	Design	212
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.	Design	213
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.		214
I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.		215
I want to empower women.		216
I'm not big on women looking naive.		217
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.		218
Fame should be left to the film stars.		219
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.	Design	220
Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.		221
I feel more Scottish than Norman.		222
The police need to come down to street level.		223
My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.		224
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.		225
You can get insular with fashion.		226
It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.		301
It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.		302
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.		303
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.		304
I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.		305
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.		306
I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.		307
I think I should be a president. President of the United States.		308
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.		309
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.		310
I'm interested in designing for posterity.		311
I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.		312

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