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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Couture has a lot of issues today. Here in Paris there are oddly so few houses showing. And I'm not talking about the style. I'm talking about the sense of couture and these young actresses that you were talking about - they want long dresses that are not always the most innovative or the most interesting. So it's a bit lost.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Fashion, in a way, has become like pop culture today. With all of the communications and the Internet and the designers doing lines with big brands, it's more popular than it's ever been, but everything is all mixed together. It's become like television or music.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's a fight with everybody. I'm transforming and convincing. It's more than designing. It's shaking people and trying to give them direction. I'm a bit of a control freak. This is a problem as I get older, and it's something I should work on. I should be more confident - learn to trust people and give them freedom and delegate.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I always have the feeling that my subjects are the same - I'm just changing my point of view. I'm going to move a little bit this time and watch it a different way. But at the end, I think I'm always fascinated by the same things, except I will express them over and over again, with different words, with different colors, with different shapes. But strangely it will always be the same topics or subjects that are so important to me.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect a few things, a few images that will be so important for your future choices. Not only aesthetic, or what you like for dressing, but your artistic choices. The room where I put papers and pictures and posters on the walls when I was a kid, it's still very strong in my head today. This movie poster or that portrait of a girl I took from a magazine, deep inside, is inspiration that comes back all the time.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I can say, let's go to the DNA of the brand and find something that I can introduce into my work. It's part of the patrimony of fashion.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I do love science-fiction and horror movies.
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By AnonymNicolas 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 is more of a playground for international designers, so I don't really feel French. And I don't really want to feel French.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I don't know if that's new, but it has become very official over the past 25 or 30 years - and today it's probably at its most extreme point, where sometimes collections look more like a stylist's work than a designer's signature.
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By AnonymNicolas 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.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I have a quality where I sort of scare people. But I am who I am.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I like the idea of women and men in movement. My fashion is not about being still. It's almost sporty, sometimes. I like the evolution of sports clothes. I think they are very interesting in the cut, in the fabrics.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have - that's the most inspiring thing. The way you share relationships with the people around you.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I love this idea of being able to touch people with something quite familiar, something quite emotional, and at the same time, have the feeling that this is a new way of doing it, a fresh way of showing things. I like radical people. At the same time, I'm fascinated by popularity, people who were able to have huge success and also keep their consistency.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I meet architects, I meet incredible talent. Fashion is really a world, besides the creation, that I think is super interesting, super inspiring.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I think creating the clothes is about creating historical images - and that's about more than fashion. It is about the fashion, the photography, what you are doing in the moment. It's what we call in French rechercher, or the search for that thing. So even though fashion is not scientific, I think being a designer is somewhat like being a scientist.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
It's quite strange in fashion, and it's probably the same with movies and acting - the big choice is between being radical, making a choice that will be more specific that will reach less people but will be very strong and very directional, and making a choice that will be more popular and catch the interest of a large group of people. Sometimes people are trying to push you in one direction or another.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
It was time to come up here and retire with my wonderful husband, and my children and my grandchildren, and make that change. I'm not good at hanging on. When I make a decision to cut it off, I have to cut it off completely. I'm not good at, "Oh, I'll stick around and consult a little bit." I'm not good at that and I don't want to do that. I don't think you get anywhere doing that. I mean, I don't, although other people might. But that's not my personality. It's not my id. I have to make the break and be a good sport and adjust to it.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Naturally looking at something will become so important in your aesthetic. For that, you have to be disciplined, too, in the way that there is a moment to catch and there is a moment to express. The moment to express has to be so pragmatic, because you have to build the clothes; you have to be very, very specific about how you want to describe to other people, for the color of the fabric, the way of sewing things, putting things together.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point of view. At the same time, you have to be so organized and so serious. There are two aspects that are quite big contradictions, strangely, in what I'm doing.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna read tomorrow morning. Forget it." The first thing when I wake up - quite late, usually - I am craving the newspaper.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
There is something I think we share, which is, of course, an appreciation for Helmut Lang. I think at a certain point he really changed so many things in fashion. I'm a bit younger than Helmut, but from my point of view he provided a true entrance into this new way of thinking - not being invaded into couture.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
To look deeply into the lawn and see six shades of green - there is hardly that respite for you. And that's our job that we're doing. And it's even more demanding for someone like yourself, who is so extremely creative. But you have to move forward. You cannot just wallow or sit back and take in the accolades. They're wonderful, the accolades, and you appreciate them. But then you go on to the next moment. You have to always be going out to the end of the diving board and diving off.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
When my parents realized that what I liked was fashion, they gave me good advice. I remember my father telling me that I should try to do an internship. They never said, "This is a world we don't know; it might be something strange," or "That is not serious," or things like that. They always said, "Try. We'll help you. We'll send drawings to people if you want. We'll write letters for you." What I'm very thankful for is they never made me think that something was impossible. They were really, really supportive. They are still.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Why is it that when I did a weird dress in the past, people were like, 'Oh, it's niche,' and why when I do a pair of jeans that are super cool, it's much more accessible, but I enjoy doing it? I enjoy the mix of those two things. I realized that quite late, actually. I'm going to really try to express those two things at the same time, because this is me.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.
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By AnonymNicolas Ghesquiere
Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.
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