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Jean Paul Gaultier [1952-0] French

Rank: 102
Designer, Fashion Designer

Jean-Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. Jean-Paul Gaultier co-presented the popular television series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes.

Dreams, Beauty, Freedom, Sad

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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.		101
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.		102
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.	Dreams	103
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.		104
My eccentricity became direction.		105
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.	Beauty	106
I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.	Freedom	107
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.		108
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.		109
Always my collections are made of different influences.		110
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.		111
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.		112
I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.	Dreams	113
Fashion is not art. Never.		114
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.		115
Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.		116
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.		117
It is beautiful to be what you are.		118
People are so codified - it's sad.	Sad	119
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.		120
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.		121
Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.		122
I was lucky to have parents who loved me.		123
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.		124
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.		125
When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.		126
I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.		201
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.		202
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.		203
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.		204
If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.		205
In France, history is paralyzing.		206
There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.		207
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.		208
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!		209

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