For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.
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… - 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…
- Jean Paul Gaultier
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see. - Jean Paul Gaultier
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it. - Jean Paul Gaultier
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
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 discr… - 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 discr…
People are so codified - it's sad. - Jean Paul Gaultier
People are so codified - it's sad.
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect. - Jean Paul Gaultier
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.
It is beautiful to be what you are. - Jean Paul Gaultier
It is beautiful to be what you are.
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story. - Jean Paul Gaultier
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. - Jean Paul Gaultier
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
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