"You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition."
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"The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today"
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"There is no better designer than nature"
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"Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment."
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"People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination."
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"I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it."
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"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"
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"If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing."
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"When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen."
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"For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium."
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"There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing."
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"Fashion is self confident and fearless."
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"It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."
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"It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things."
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"Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual"
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"I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy."
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"Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women."
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"I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head."
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"Give me time and I'll give you a revolution."
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"I want people to be afraid of the women I dress."
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