"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."
"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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Source: McQueen Leaves Fashion in Ruins by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2009.
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