Top 57 Paul Gaultier Quotes
#1. I grabbed Lexi's tousled head and kissed her hair. She smelt like John-Paul Gaultier and blood.
Shirley Marr
#2. I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#3. For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
Colleen Atwood
#4. I lived on a farm in Illinois, and we didn't have a lot of money. But I lived vicariously through magazines. I was obsessed with Jean Paul Gaultier. I still have the scrapbooks, and I've kept all my designs and sketches.
Melissa McCarthy
#6. I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
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#8. To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
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#9. 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!
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#10. I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
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#11. There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.
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#12. Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
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#15. Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.
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#16. 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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#18. My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.
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#19. Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
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#22. I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.
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#23. It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
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#24. I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
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#25. People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
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#26. 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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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
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#40. There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.
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#41. I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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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#45. I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
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#46. People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
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#50. 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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#51. I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.
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#52. You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
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#53. 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!
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#54. My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television
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#55. 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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#56. Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
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#57. All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.
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