"When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off."
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"I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists."
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"Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality."
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"People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality."
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"If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes."
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"It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things."
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"As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do."
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"I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade."
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"There’s blood beneath every layer of skin."
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"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual."
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"Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me."
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"There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants."
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"When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows."
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"Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale."
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"My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really."
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"It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood."
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"I'm not interested in being liked."
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"The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity."
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"I feel more Scottish than Norman."
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"I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions."
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