Nicolas Ghesquiere famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Smart #Creativity #Priorities
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?'
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Giving #Long #Grace
Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Never Forget #Forget #Timeless
Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Fashion #Style #Age
What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Fashion #Interesting #Moments
I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Thinking
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Fashion #Thinking #Interesting
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Thinking #Being The Best
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."
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

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

#Design #Want #Today
I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Grateful #Be Grateful #Curious
You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Thinking #Lucky #Sometimes
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

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

#Fashion #Thinking #Pressure
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Distance #Shields #Needs
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Emotional #People #Consistency
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Photography #Fashion #Thinking
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#People #Together #Important
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Thinking #House #Artistic
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Morning #Thinking #Interesting
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Art #People #Lifestyle
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Sports #Fashion #Cutting
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Thinking #People
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Sports #Children #Husband
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.
-- Nicolas Ghesquiere

#Moving #Appreciate #Creative

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