Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

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

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

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

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

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

Fashion is not art. Never.

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

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

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