Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes & Sayings

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

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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 will stay in my bed! — Jean Paul Gaultier

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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! — Jean Paul Gaultier

I was fascinated by movies from age 12. — 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. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

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

In France, history is paralyzing. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To conform is to give in. — 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

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

If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television — 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 start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

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

Fashion is not art. Never. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

My eccentricity became direction. — Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Always my collections are made of different influences. — 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've always felt more at home in the UK than in France. — 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

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