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To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
Jean Paul Gaultier
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Jean Paul Gaultier
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 24
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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 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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I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
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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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I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
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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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Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
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Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
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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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Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
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In France, history is paralyzing.
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I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
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