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,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert -… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
It's good that there is more support of diversity but there is still a lot of resistance. I never saw it as fighting for a cause, though, for me it was spontaneous, I was doing what felt natural to me. I felt a part of it. I have always been attracted to what is new, interesting, funny, creative, the good… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share
I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to have fun,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
