I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. Jean Paul Gaultier More Quotes by Jean Paul Gaultier More Quotes From 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 beautiful beauty inspirational Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. Jean Paul Gaultier luxury fashion personality Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. Jean Paul Gaultier translate fashion looks 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. Jean Paul Gaultier discrimination seductive men It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. Jean Paul Gaultier fashion people interesting There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect. Jean Paul Gaultier kind When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women who inspired me, and ask them to walk how they walked. I was doing a mise en scène, which for me was normal. I love for people to see my clothes, but it was more about the attitude of the girls. The revues of the late 19th century/early 20th century were very much a reflection of what was happening in society and politics, and for me that is also the role of the fashion designer. Jean Paul Gaultier fashion girl attitude I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream. Jean Paul Gaultier fashion tattoo dream It is beautiful to be what you are. Jean Paul Gaultier beautiful 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. Jean Paul Gaultier beautiful kids children Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society. Jean Paul Gaultier connections design movement I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. Jean Paul Gaultier impact fashion way Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried! Jean Paul Gaultier cat knows fall All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen. Jean Paul Gaultier passionate enough wanted My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television Jean Paul Gaultier fashion television school People are so codified - it's sad. Jean Paul Gaultier people 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 love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time. Jean Paul Gaultier leather-jackets fashion blue Fashion is not art. Never. Jean Paul Gaultier fashion art Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke. Jean Paul Gaultier dressings clothes pleasure My eccentricity became direction. Jean Paul Gaultier eccentricity
