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Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

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Nicolas Ghesquiere
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 9
Designer
Grand Couturier
Clarmont-Ferrand
Nicolas Ghesquiere
Everybody
Priority
Thing
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Brands
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Saint
Build
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Laurent
Creativity
Dior

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I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.
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I like the idea of women and men in movement. My fashion is not about being still. It's almost sporty, sometimes. I like the evolution of sports clothes. I think they are very interesting in the cut, in the fabrics.
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Today, kids are much more aware of what fashion means, but when I was growing up, it was popular, but not as popular as today. Like any kid, I was fascinated by drawing. But when some of the kids let go, I kept drawing and drawing.
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I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I meet architects, I meet incredible talent. Fashion is really a world, besides the creation, that I think is super interesting, super inspiring.
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I don't feel French at all. That was never really a concern, and it's limiting to think that way. I think Paris is more of a playground for international designers, so I don't really feel French. And I don't really want to feel French.
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It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.
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I'm the kind of person who, even after a shoot that I've loved, is always moving on. There is no gap.
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I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.
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I'd rather work with someone who likes what I do than create something for the red carpet that won't make me happy.
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First, at a certain point, I wanted to have my own magazine, but I never could. Why? Because I am not commercial enough. The people who would have been able to give me my own magazine, they were not insulting me, but they would simply say, It wouldn't work for you. And that was a big disappointment to me.
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What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.
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Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.
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We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.
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I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!
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As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.
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Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, This is the last season. I'm not gonna read tomorrow morning. Forget it. The first thing when I wake up - quite late, usually - I am craving the newspaper.
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I do love science-fiction and horror movies.
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Fashion, in a way, has become like pop culture today. With all of the communications and the Internet and the designers doing lines with big brands, it's more popular than it's ever been, but everything is all mixed together. It's become like television or music.
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I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'
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For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.
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