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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

#am #biographical #business #i #i am

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

#cut #equilibrium #found #getting #i

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

#come #design #design clothes #different #dress

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

#clothes #expect #face #fault #find

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. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#bought #care #clothes #commercialism #concept

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#focused #i #illusions #look #mind

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#dress #i #people #want #women

I want to empower women. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #want #women

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#dress #empower #i #people #want

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands. ↗

— Jay McShann

#ballroom #bands #big #big bands #boogie