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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
— Alexander McQueen
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Alexander McQueen
fashion designer, photographer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1969 – 2010
Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992 and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards, as well as the Council of Fashion Designers of America International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen died by suicide in 2010 at the age of 40, at his home in Mayfair, London, shortly after the death of his mother.
All Quotes by Alexander McQueen
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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.
— Alexander McQueen
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
— Alexander McQueen
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I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.
— Alexander McQueen
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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.
— Alexander McQueen
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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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