51+ Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes On Fashion, Board And Sale

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Top 10 Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes

  1. Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
  4. My eccentricity became direction.
  5. When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
  6. I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.
  7. Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
  8. Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
  9. I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
  10. My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

Jean Paul Gaultier Short Quotes

  • To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
  • I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
  • When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
  • What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?
  • Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.
  • I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
  • People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
  • People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
  • If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
  • I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes About Fashion

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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Fashion is not art. Never. — 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

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes About Love

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. — 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 to be an object, they choose to be in control. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I was lucky to have parents who loved me. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes About Life

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

Jean Paul Gaultier Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — 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

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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

People are so codified - it's sad. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke. — Jean Paul Gaultier

It is beautiful to be what you are. — Jean Paul Gaultier

In France, history is paralyzing. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

I will stay in my bed! — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Life Lessons by Jean Paul Gaultier

  1. Jean Paul Gaultier's work demonstrates the power of fashion to challenge traditional gender roles and to break down barriers of acceptance.
  2. His designs often incorporate elements of traditional clothing from diverse cultures, emphasizing the importance of celebrating and respecting cultural differences.
  3. His boundary-pushing designs also show the potential of fashion to be a form of creative expression, allowing people to express themselves in unique and unexpected ways.
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