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Alexander McQueen

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About Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded the eponymous fashion house Alexander McQueen in 1992, and worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. He won four British Designer of the Year awards, and the CFDA International Designer of the Year award in 2003.

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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

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.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

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,…

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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