Jean Paul Gaultier
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.Collection: Money
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.Collection: Home
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.Collection: Dreams
People are so codified - it's sad.Collection: Sad
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.Collection: Beauty
In France, history is paralyzing.Collection: History
I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.Collection: Freedom
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.Collection: Movies
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.Collection: Movies
I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.Collection: Dreams
It is beautiful to be what you are.
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
Fashion is not art. Never.
I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
My eccentricity became direction.
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.
When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.
Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.
Always my collections are made of different influences.
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.Collection: Fashion
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.Collection: Men
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.Collection: Fashion
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.Collection: Kind
I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.Collection: Tattoo
All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.Collection: Passionate
Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.Collection: Design
For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.Collection: Beautiful
Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!Collection: Fall
My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on televisionCollection: Fashion
When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women who inspired me, and ask them to walk how they walked. I was doing a mise en scène, which for me was normal. I love for people to see my clothes, but it was more about the attitude of the girls. The revues of the late 19th century/early 20th century were very much a reflection of what was happening in society and politics, and for me that is also the role of the fashion designer.Collection: Girl
Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.Collection: Clothes
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.Collection: Fashion
I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.Collection: Sunday
I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.Collection: Love