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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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Jean Paul Gaultier
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 24
Businessperson
Costume Designer
Fashion Designer
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Arcueil-Cachan
Jean Paul Gaultier
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I went to London a lot as a young designer because London was a major inspiration, not only for the clothes but the sense of freedom. I remember going to see a stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the mid Eighties and loving the mix of Goth and humor, and in my shows I've always liked to play jokes and have fun.
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I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.
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In France, history is paralyzing.
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People are so codified - it's sad.
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I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
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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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I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
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It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
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Always my collections are made of different influences.
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Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
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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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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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People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
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To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
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My eccentricity became direction.
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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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Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
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Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
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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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I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
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