Quotes by Jean Paul Gaultier

About Jean Paul Gaultier:

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. In the past, he has hosted the television series Eurotrash.
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I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Fashion is not art. Never.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

In France, history is paralyzing.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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 t...

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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!

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

Always my collections are made of different influences.

Jean Paul Gaultier

It is beautiful to be what you are.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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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Author Bio

  • NameJean Paul Gaultier
  • DescriptionFashion designer
  • BornApril 24, 1952
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionGrand Couturier