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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Start, How, Classics, Collection

My eccentricity became direction.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Direction, Became, Eccentricity

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 Think, Wear, About, New Ideas

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Beauty, Say, Like, Normally

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Myself, Wear, Figure, Sweater

Always my collections are made of different influences.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Influences, Always, Made, Collections

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

Love, Opera, Movie, OK

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Myself, Doing, Drawings, Teenager

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

Small, Exhibition, Took, Flesh

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Think, I Think, Became, Fashion Designer

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

Love, Dress, Conservative, French

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Shy, Always, Making, Communicating

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

Always, Over, Been, Tends

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Fed Up, More, Fed, Popular

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Childhood, Lucky, Very, Realizing

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

More, Always, Than, UK

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Sometimes, See, Films, Posters

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Some, Things, Even, Punished

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Like, Which, Would, Fashion

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Normal, Some, Still, Astounded

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Think, Fact, Everyone, France

In France, history is paralyzing.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

History, France

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Impact, Doing, My Own, Exactly What

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Own, Way, My Own, Collection

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Believe, Buy, Them, Expensive

I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Age, Movies, Fascinated

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

- Jean Paul Gaultier

Reality, My Life, Like, Dreams

People are so codified - it's sad.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

People, Sad

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