"I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that."
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"For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do."
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"It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing."
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"There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible"
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"I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil."
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"The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it."
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"I find beauty in melancholy."
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"You can only go forward by making mistakes."
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"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."
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"If you're an open book, there's no allure."
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"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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"I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time."
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"There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion."
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"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
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"Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes."
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"I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition"
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"Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places."
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"Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste."
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"It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance."
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"There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance."
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