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 perfect for you. Years after when it told them what i could say about the fact was going with a guy, they said if you love each other, that is wonderful. So i think i was lucky to have parents like that. Very modern. Very openminded. Unlike for some, theres no question of religion, of color of skin, or anything like that. People can be all beautiful. It depends on who they are, but it is not a question of color. For me, both of us were beautiful. And i loved color. Color of the skin. Tattoo on the skin, which is a kind of color. Some
Modern woman. I say, is that completely stupid . Maybe she is beautiful. So i say that the men i show will be balanced. I do not say that is the only object, not at all. Unless maybe. But i want to show that community and men. And i wanted to show the masculinity in the woman. Humans and in passing just now farida kelfer, the was the beginning of the showing on the runway, models who were not typical of the models at the time. I am sorry to say that is this still true that we see so little diversity on the runways. It is really shameful. You have always thought their direct there are showing that there is a recurrence of the beauty from debra countries and origins. I was 11 or 12 in a school that was mixed. There were boys and girls. There was one girl i remember that was coming from the french 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, spar
That was coming from the french 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 th
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 of the bay area. One of my favorites, duri
Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining