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Alexander McQueen

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Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!


— Alexander McQueen


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The police need to come down to street level.


— Alexander McQueen


#down #level #need #police #street

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.


— Alexander McQueen


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


— Alexander McQueen


#between #company #financial #mental #needs

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.


— Alexander McQueen


#designer #fashion #i #i think #idea

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.


— Alexander McQueen


#away #back #book #dressed #gets

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.


— Alexander McQueen


#century #dead #gone #i #know

You can get insular with fashion.


— Alexander McQueen


#get #insular #you

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.


— Alexander McQueen


#behind #hide #i #more #much

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.


— Alexander McQueen


#find #i #ideas #lot #now






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On 16 February 2010 pop musician and friend Lady Gaga performed an acoustic jazz rendition of her hit single "Telephone" and segued into "Dance in the Dark" at the 2010 Brit Awards. McQueen later attended Rokeby School and left aged 16 in 1984 with one O-level in art going on to serve an apprenticeship with Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard before joining Gieves & Hawkes and later the theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans. McQueen also designed a range of dresses under the name of "manta" priced at around £2800.

[opinion] He is also 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. Lee Alexander McQueen CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows.

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