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 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 an
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
Intelligent but one time that changed and was changing. And the vision of the woman about the man was changing, too. Some men were not accepting their femininity. Does not mean that they were gay or whatever, no. It just means that men can be sensible, but they have been traumatized by their education that wanted to make them as a john wayne, you know . Apparently. It was very sensitive in reality. You have to be sensitive anyway. But to look real mature like that. So i wanted to show the first collection i did. For me, it was evident. The male object. I always felt, not consulted because i do not consider myself as a woman, but i felt insulted for the woman to say, you know, there was that expression for the woman. [speaking foreign language] she had a lot to say, a very 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
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 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 friend
[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 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.