Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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