‘It Was Always the Cliché’ — Jean Paul Gaultier Quote Tee | Wear Words Black-on-White Statement Shirt — Muscle Tank

“It was always the cliché of chic, the cliché that because it’s expensive, it’s beautiful. I didn’t like that, so I was quite rebellious. I say, ‘No, there is so much more to beauty’.” Jean Paul Gaultier was remembering his early-1970s apprenticeships at Cardin and Patou when he said this around his 2014 Barbican retrospective: a teenager inside couture discovering that the whole creed was “expensive equals beautiful,” and deciding on the spot to rebel. He spent fifty years proving beauty answers to no price tag. Worth and cost are two different things wearing the same coat, and mistaking one for the other is how you get fooled.

**Bella+Canvas 3483 — Muscle Tank (Black only for now, Color finish).** A white option isn’t available from our printer at the moment — we’ll add it the moment it is. 100% combed & ring-spun cotton, 4.2 oz, 30 singles. Unisex muscle fit, crew neck, cut-off sleeves, wide armholes, side-seamed, pre-shrunk. Care: machine wash cold with like colors, tumble dry low, no bleach, cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).