Quote of the Week: Gaultier Needs a Tennis History Lesson

“I don’t recall her name, I know nothing about tennis. I saw a photo of her from the 20s or 30s, and I liked her silhouette, and I said ‘allez, let’s play tennis,” Jean Paul Gaultier on Susan Lenglen who happened to be his Spring 2010 inspiration for Hermes. He might be the only the man in Paris who holds the distinction of not knowing who Lenglen is. But we forgive him!


