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When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
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The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
Jean Paul Gaultier
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Always my collections are made of different influences.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
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.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
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.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
Jean Paul Gaultier
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I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
People are so codified - it's sad.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.
Jean Paul Gaultier
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People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.
Jean Paul Gaultier