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Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) 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. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen died by suicide in 2010, at the age of forty, at his home in Mayfair, London.

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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.

Blue, Break, Olympic, Record, Running, School

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

Beneath, Blood, Layer, Layers, Skin, Skins

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.

Cut, Cutting, Long, Looking, Think, Thinking

I'm not interested in being liked.

Interested, Liked, Not Interested

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

Photographer, Photographers, Producers, Took, Years

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

Balance, Company, Mental, Needs, Satisfaction

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

Believe, Focus, Right, Solely, There Comes A Time

I find beauty in melancholy.

Beauty, Inspirational, Melancholy, Relatable

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

Party, People, Shows, Want

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

Good, Style, Subtlety, Taste

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

Sex, War, Thinking, Use, Hide

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.

Beach, Beautiful, Dress, Fashion, Kind, Like

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

Clothes, Come, Lying, Think, Thinking, Understanding

I want to empower women.

Empower, Empowering, Empowering Women, Want, Women

The police need to come down to street level.

Down, Levels, Needs, Police, Street

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Age, Birthday, Book, Books, Fashion, Read

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

Escapism, Fashion, Form, Imprisonment, Should

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

Clothes, Individual, Style

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

Dark, Dealing, Inspirational, People, Personality

The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

Everybody, Explosion, Fashion, Happened, Passion, Technology

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