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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 no...

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 ...

Mentioned that can turn address and to have a jacket and half the skirt or can make a trench coat one of Jean Paul Gaultiers iconic pieces and send it that is a trenchcoat but is also a pair of shorts. These kind of things, theyre not tricks. Their works of extraordinary skill. If you search in the exhibition, you will find that. Youll see the very early years that jean paul spend when he was learning paris couture. Eglin said this young man looking very serious as he sits you will see this youn...

10 times more intelligent. [laughter] yes. I mean, like, men did not realize that most of the time. Even if the need. The need, you know. So that, you know, truly, i felt the power of the woman. At the time, also like the woman at sleeve and that kind of thing. We admit we women reacting on taking out the bra and putting it on fire. The fire of the bra. A symbol. Showing that we are as much as the men. Maybe we first tried to look at men to see that we are equals. After that, it was one that wou...

World to work. But it doesnt bother this man, who may have figured out how to become the richest prospector of them all. What are the odds that theres going to be gold there . Extremely high. Like pretty well, i could almost guarantee gold. Simon seven million ounces at todays gold prices, what would that be worth . Its probably close to 10 billion. Safer italy is home to two thirds of the worlds cultural treasures. The trouble is, the countrys too broke to keep its historic ruins, churches, mon...

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 ...

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. [laughter] i just want to know, can you hear me . ...

On taking out the bra and putting it on fire. The fire of the bra. A symbol. Showing that we are as much as the men. Maybe we first tried to look at men to see that we are equals. After that, it was one that would then it can be as mature, strong or whatever, than a man. But we also see the attribute of imagery, of seduction, which was exactly what was into it in madonna. So we can all understand. When you saw madonna in her appointed course it, this was not the first time you had seen womens un...

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 ...

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 exhibi...