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Alexander McQueen
English
Designer
Born:
Mar 17
,
1969
Died:
Feb 11
,
2010
Fashion
Me
People
Think
Want
You
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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
You
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Only
Never
Make
Learn
Course
Making
Go
Human
Forward
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
Alexander McQueen
Today
Good
You
Come
Know
Makes
Blood
Where
Your
You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Alexander McQueen
You
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Only
Making
Go
Forward
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
Alexander McQueen
Women
People
Dress
Afraid
Want
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.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion
Together
Style
Rules
Wearing
Classic
About
High-End
No Rules
Individual
New
New Era
Era
Labels
Up-And-Coming
Personal
Personal Style
Designers
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
People
Will
Gone
Alexander
Know
Dead
McQueen
Century
Twenty-First
Started
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
Alexander McQueen
Women
People
Dress
Empower
Afraid
Want
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
People
Clothes
Design
Think
Our
Dress
Come
Era
Different
Want
Design Clothes
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
Alexander McQueen
Man
He
Ideal
Ideal Man
Because
Real
Sting
Real Man
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.
Alexander McQueen
Time
Long
Long Time
Looking
Think
Silhouette
Perfect
Equilibrium
Getting
Customer
Cut
Mojo
Found
Now
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
Alexander McQueen
Work
People
Mind
Own
Other
Focused
My Own
Never
Look
Illusions
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion
Imprisonment
Escapism
Form
Should
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
Alexander McQueen
Good
Style
Too
Proud
Personal
Want
Personal Style
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.
Alexander McQueen
You
Yourself
Own
Trends
Push
Make
Always
Got
Up
Your
Forward
Keep
Designer
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.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion
Problem
Big
Think
Part
Longevity
Quick
Big Part
Just
Turnover
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.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion
Heritage
Drawing
Constant
Constant Flow
Fearless
Self
Generating
Thus
New
Ideas
Bow
New Ideas
Commerce
Confident
Refuses
Whilst
Flow
British
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.
Alexander McQueen
People
Only
Know
Message
Underlying
Understand
Always
Intellectual
Going
McQueen
Who
The police need to come down to street level.
Alexander McQueen
Police
Down
Come
Street
Level
Need
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
Alexander McQueen
Life
Old
Three
My Life
Drawing
All My Life
Years
Did
Started
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
Alexander McQueen
Youth
Culture
Style
Past
Back
Embraces
Particular
Contemporary
Looks
Sticking
Really
Youth Culture
Now
Keeps
I am a melancholy type of person.
Alexander McQueen
Type
Melancholy
Am
Person
I am married to work.
Alexander McQueen
Work
Married
Am
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.
Alexander McQueen
Myself
You
Fault
Face
Clothes
Everything
Collections
Find
Some
Kitchen
Kitchen Sink
Thrown
Look
Make
Around
Saint
Couture
Sink
Hit
Expect
Gets
Expensive
Room
Turn
Grotesque
Including
Things
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
Alexander McQueen
You
Compliment
Find
Ideas
Lot
Shows
Now
Fame should be left to the film stars.
Alexander McQueen
Stars
Left
Fame
Should
Film
Film Stars
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.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion
You
Doctor
First
Big
Those
Spin
Scary
Never
Industry
Got
How
Up
Shock
Shows
Grown
Grown-Up
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