Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes

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

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

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.

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

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

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

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

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

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

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!

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

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.

Fashion is not art. Never.

My eccentricity became direction.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

People are so codified - it's sad.

When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

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

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

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

Always my collections are made of different influences.

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

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.

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.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

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 was fascinated by movies from age 12.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

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.

In France, history is paralyzing.

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

I will stay in my bed!

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

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

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.

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

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

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