Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.”
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“It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.”
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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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“I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.”
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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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“When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.”
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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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“My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television”
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“Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.”
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“My eccentricity became direction.”
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“Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.”
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“I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.”
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“Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.”
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“I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.”
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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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“Always my collections are made of different influences.”
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“I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.”
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“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.”
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“I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.”
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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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“I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.”
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