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

“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.

**AS Colour 5082 “Faded Bone” — Oversized Tee (Cream finish).** 100% carded cotton, heavyweight 240 gsm, garment-dyed — each tee fades a little differently, so no two are identical. Oversized, boxy relaxed fit, dropped shoulders, wide twin-stitched ribbed neck, side-seamed, pre-shrunk (size down for a less roomy look). Care: machine wash cold inside-out with like colors, do NOT bleach, do NOT tumble dry (line dry in the shade to protect the garment dye), cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).