Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.

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

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

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.

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

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.

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.

I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.

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.

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

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

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.

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?'

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.

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

I'm the kind of person who, even after a shoot that I've loved, is always moving on. There is no gap.

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.

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

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.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.

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.

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

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