Quotes by Nicolas Ghesquiere

Nicolas 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.

Construction

Designer

Emotion

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.

House

Interesting

Long

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn’t this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.

Artistic

House

Thinking

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

Age

Fashion

Style

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.

Communication

Fashion

Together

First, at a certain point, I wanted to have my own magazine, but I never could. Why? Because I am not commercial enough. The people who would have been able to give me my own magazine, they were not insulting me, but they would simply say, “It wouldn’t work for you.” And that was a big disappointment to me.

Disappointment

Giving

People

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.

Jeans

Mother

Shoes

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.

Fighting

Giving

People

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.

Feelings

Moving

Thinking

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.

Girl

Strong

Wall

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Addiction

Age

Appreciate

Appreciation

Art

Artist

Artistic

Be Grateful

Being The Best

Believe

Believe In Yourself

Boring

Children

Clothes

Communication

Concern

Consistency

Construction

Crazy

Creative

Creativity

Curious

Cutting

Design

Designer

Disappointment

Distance

Emotion

Emotional

Fashion

Father

Feelings

Fiction

Fighting

Forget

Girl

Giving

Grace

Grateful

Grew Up

Growing Up

Hard Work

Horror

House

Husband

I Am Who I Am

Ideas

Important

Interesting

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Quotes by Nicolas Ghesquiere

Nicolas 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.

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn’t this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.

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

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.

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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