Jean Paul Gaultier

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.

Fashion is not art. Never.

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

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.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

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.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

In France, history is paralyzing.