Beautiful. They looked to me, and i wanted to show it. Another kind of different was the fact that when i saw farida, i said, my god, she is incredible. I was very impressed by her beauty. Very frightened even by her beauty. She was kind of a very arrogant imperial. And african and beauty with a special expression. Not arrogant. But beautiful. I said, i want to show this girl which is different. Does not know how to walk as a model. They have their own personality. I remember this year i was asking a professional model to walk to see if there were walking too much as a professional model because i did not want that. I wanted to tell them, please what differently. Not like a robot doing their profession. They have no control about the way they were walking. They learned to do that. So that is that the condition that they did not like. I wanted to show people that it is by the attitude. They were arriving. In some ways, a was a very shy person. You can make the casting for me something.
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
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, 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 influen
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 of my favorite moments is one suzy stopped in her tracks. She said, this is it, this is what is true of any great artist or any great designer. When they do something, it can be shocking and avantgarde, but years later, we stand and look at it and believe it has always existed. I think that this is true of Jean Paul Gaultiers work. I know that have been friends for a very long time. It is my honor to introduce both suzy menkes, fashion editor of the International Herald tribune, and mr. Jean paul gaultier. [applause] the love seat. [laug
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 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