Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes

• I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

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• I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• I don’t know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

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• I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it’s like a party.

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• I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

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• Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

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• Fashion is not art. Never.

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• Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.

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• Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

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• Always my collections are made of different influences.

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• You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

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• I don’t like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

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• I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.

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Jean Paul Gaultier (35)

Birth:	24th April, 1952
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Jean-Paul Gaultier was born in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France. He is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. He co-presented the television series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes. He never received formal training as a designer. He licenses a line of perfumes in collaboration with Puig company. In 2012, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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