30 Quotes by Nicolas Ghesquiere

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

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

Actually, I love golf clothes! I think this is the most interesting part of golf!

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.