Hi, thank you all for coming here today. I am the costume and textiles creator here at the Fine Arts Museum. It is make great honor to introduce, to present this program today. Just a few things come out of respect, photography is allowed, but no flash photography. We will be taking questions from the audience, and you can submit your questions either through twitter or email, and we also handed out cards to you when you arrived. The questions will happen at the end of the program. If you are not planning to tweet or email, please turn your cellphone off. Again, it is my great honor to have this program and conversation between susie and Jean Paul Gaultier. I feel very fortunate at the Fine Arts Museum because in fact susie mencus son lives in the bay area and she comes frequently to visit the family. It is always my favorite time of in the exhibition, when she comes and i get to walk through the exhibition with her. It is so learnful. I wanted to share that opportunity with the rest o
Creator here at the Fine Arts Museum. It is make great honor to introduce, to present this program today. Just a few things come out of respect, photography is allowed, but no flash photography. We will be taking questions from the audience, and you can submit your questions either through twitter or email, and we also handed out cards to you when you arrived. The questions will happen at the end of the program. If you are not planning to tweet or email, please turn your cellphone off. Again, it is my great honor to have this program and conversation between susie and Jean Paul Gaultier. I feel very fortunate at the Fine Arts Museum because in fact susie mencus son lives in the bay area and she comes frequently to visit the family. It is always my favorite time of in the exhibition, when she comes and i get to walk through the exhibition with her. It is so learnful. I wanted to share that opportunity with the rest of the bay area. One of my favorites, during the laurent exhibition, one
Coutoure collection like that. A dream of the elegance of paris. And i remember that i propose it was the last new bid of coutoure that arrived. I thought to propose [unintelligible] why dont you take one designer like Vivian Westwood or others to make one season, one coutoure collection . You should call some up immediately and suggest the deal. [laughs] that is true. Each one to make their own collection should not be back. A very attractive idea. As you do not want to talk about art, we will not say your work is art. Lets be very vulgar and talk about money. [laughter] it is extraordinary what you have produced in coutoure. Does that make any money . Quick to be honest, what we produce in coutoure does not make money but it does include money. I must say, i am very proud of that. When i started to do coutoure, after a lot of stories that may be issued do another job, i said, ok, i will do my own collection. I started and never stopped after. On boat one, one woman, done all in lace
Hi, thank you all for coming here today. I am the costume and textiles creator here at the Fine Arts Museum. It is make great honor to introduce, to present this program today. Just a few things come out of respect, photography is allowed, but no flash photography. We will be taking questions from the audience, and you can submit your questions either through twitter or email, and we also handed out cards to you when you arrived. The questions will happen at the end of the program. If you are not planning to tweet or email, please turn your cellphone off. Again, it is my great honor to have this program and conversation between susie and Jean Paul Gaultier. I feel very fortunate at the Fine Arts Museum because in fact susie mencus son lives in the bay area and she comes frequently to visit the family. It is always my favorite time of in the exhibition, when she comes and i get to walk through the exhibition with her. It is so learnful. I wanted to share that opportunity with the rest o
Colony. She was in algeria and came back to france. She had a very white skin. Very, very white with speckles . Freckles. Freckles. More glamorous. Glittering. But she was glamorous for me, sparkles no, freckles. Sorry, i cannot say. [laughter] but she has beautiful red hair, light afro type but red hair. To me, i was like, oh, my god, she is so beautiful. For me, if i want to be friends with someone that i admire, i have to be like him or her, cannot have the red hair. So i say, i also come from nigeria and i am like you. [laughter] i do not think she believed me so i was inventing names. Anyway. So she influenced me. She had white skin. You could see her veins. She was very strange but beautiful for me. I was always attracted by different beauty that i saw everywhere. I remember some movies called guess whos coming to have dinner tonight with sydney party. I remember i said to my parents i was 12. If i come with a black girl, what will you say . And they say, if you love her, that is