Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Quotations

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!

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.

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.

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

Fashion is not art. Never.

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

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

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

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.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

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

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.