Nicolas Ghesquiere

I don't feel French at all. That was never really a concern, and it's limiting to think that way. I think Paris…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

First, at a certain point, I wanted to have my own magazine, but I never could. Why? Because I am not commercial…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I have a quality where I sort of scare people. But I am who I am.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I grew up in a family that played golf, and my brother was much better than me, so I kind of put…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I always have the feeling that my subjects are the same - I'm just changing my point of view. I'm going to…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight.…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course,…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I'd rather work with someone who likes what I do than create something for the red carpet that won't make me happy.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have - that's the most inspiring thing. The way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I like the idea of women and men in movement. My fashion is not about being still. It's almost sporty, sometimes. I…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

It was time to come up here and retire with my wonderful husband, and my children and my grandchildren, and make that…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere