I didn't care about what people thought of me,
what I thought of myself,
so I would go to the far reaches of my dark side and pull these horrors out of my soul.
You don't discover talents,
talent's there.
you open doors for talent you push it through or your help it along.
St. Martin's School of Art
What I like about it was the freedom of expression and being surrounded by like-minded people. Like-minded people.
Not have a formal education,
he reinterpreted things in his way.
the final collection, it had all the elements,
the history of East End,
the darkness, Jack the ripper stalked his victims,
it has research,
it had a really great story behind it.
It was about the sabotage and the tradition,
which is the perfect combination, the beauty.
Highland rape
It is transgressive rebellion, it's in-your-face.
We are separated entities to anyone else,
and we have our own personal view about things.
I really don't like the norm.
I don't you don't move forward if you play safe.
I don't want to do a show that you walk out of feeling like you've just had Sunday lunch
I want you to come out either feeling repulsed or exhilarated,
as long as it's an emotion,
if you behave without emotion then I'm not doing my job properly.
He had his artistic energy in him,
rather than like a fashion designer.
SHOW:
A man takes from a woman,
the woman's not giving it,
that's what rap is.
You might not like the honesty he was presenting you with,
you might find it distasteful, shocking or aggressive or misogynistic.
It was armor for his heart as well,
a way of protecting women and himself,
by creating the strong women.
It's a jungle out there
Widows of lloden, autumn/winter 2006
La dame bleue, 2007
Plato's Atlantis
Nobody would create emotions in a show like Lee McQueen did.
Don't fuck with me, I'm a bitch.
Fashion for Lee was a way of just creating the communicating with a whole world,
And he wanted to take himself out of the picture,
for people just to focus on this art that he was creating.
I'm doing what has to be done,
you don't do this for the fame and the glamour of it all.
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