i think that this is true of jean paul gaultier's 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? please shout loudly if you cannot. [laughter] yes or no, you can hear? >> somebody said no. >> mic people, can i be heard? should i start? ok, good. so before i introduced one of the funniest, wittiest, most amusing and funkiest designers that i know, i would like to start with something a little bit more serious. you know, in fashion, the reason that people laughed seem obvious when you see the exhibition of all it's incredible glory and excitement. but at the same time, there were real reasons why designers laughed, and one of them, when it comes to jean paul gaultier, is probably what is talked about least. it is the technique, the skill, the handwork, the knowledge. sometimes it gets buried underneath the fantasies of the close.

so then it was like to make jean paul gaultier for ermez. no, sorry, to make ermez through the eyes of jean paul gaultier. i love that. then there was a death. it was seven years after our collaboration. i think it was good to go in, because my life was not with ermez. it was for my own company. so we changed. we pushed. spanish rudes, perfume routes. sounds very good to my ears. i am a quite truthful person >. >> is there always going to be a controversial side of jean paul gaultier? there was a time when you were inspired by rabbis. i believe you're in new york, there were a bunch of rabbis he saw walking by the public library, you turned it into a collection. you must have known this was dramatic and would be alarming to people. >> i should say that in some way, i think i have a kind of innocence. like that is not that big part of me. when it is beautiful, i believe in it. i saw it was beautiful. i wanted to show it. for me, it was so strong, the impression. it was beautiful. and with a lot of meaning for me. it was meaning for people lik

i was so happy when beth ditto appeared in one of jean paul's collections. she is a terrific woman and quite rotund in size. i have not quite caught up with her yet, but i certainly am no little stick. i personally thinks one of the things he should be admired for is not to bring the tyranny of fashion to women. he has, as he has explained, done a lot for diversity in terms of skintight but also diversity of styles and shapes, and i think that was the reason for a round of applause. [applause] >> there is one diversity also which is important, age. i should explain because you know in fashion, a terrible because there is always racism about age. one of the races and is in fashion which i am absolutely against. how could i be against age when i have a grandmother that let me do anything and what it, gave me optimism and positivity? i think people that are old and have experience, you can learn a lot from them, and there are maybe sometimes more sweet than the grandparents. i think age also is something important. i remember, i wanted to do what a collection o

euro group chief jean paul juncker said in a statement he and his colleagues will review the situation and respond soon. >>> of course cyprus isn't the first nation to make such a request. ai uchida, give us a little bit of a background. >> experts are specifically worried that this crisis is going to be a domino effect. we can't forget that 17 countries use the same currency and yet they differ vastly in financial health. as catherine mentioned, cyprus is the fifth nation in the eurozone that asked for financial aid to the eu, though cyprus' economy is small and analysts expect the impact on markets to be limited, but it is one more sign that europe's credit crisis won't be easy to solve. now, the eu has already started providing rescue funds to greece, ireland, and portugal in return of strict austerity measures. on monday, the spanish government officially asked the european union for financial assistance to prop up its struggling banks and just hours later, cyprus made the same move. and when it rains, it pours. u.s. credit rating agency moody's cut the ratings of 28 spanish banks

in the spring of 2012, the museum presented the fashion world of jean-paul gautier from the sidewalk to the catwalk. this unique exhibition has drawn 135,000 visitors. this fiscal year finished with a victorian of an art exhibition organized in collaboration with the victoria and albert museum in london. for fiscal year 2013, the fine arts museum will continue a tradition of excellence with presentations of the william s. paley collection, a taste for modernism, and in january of 2013, a girl with a parole hearing, paintings featuring 35 dutch masterpieces. the centerpiece of the show is that of premier's girl with the parole hearing. often called the dutch morley said. in november of 2012, the legion of honor will present royal treasures from the louvre. many of the pieces in the exposition have never left the

. >> how did you come to the attention of jean-paul sartre. >> i wanted to see the other side of germany. i went to-- i wanted to... i needed a visa and went to the headquarters, and said where is the one who gives the visa? i spoke for a very long time with a so officer. he told me, "i will not give you a visa. you write for a capitalist newspaper, and you will write bad things." i told him i will not. but there was nothing to do. i decide to secretly-- it was very dangerous. it was stupid-- i went-- it was possible to go from berlin to lip zig. and i spent 15 days sleeping in the parks. if i would have been caught, i don't know what-- what would have happened. but when i returned to france i wrote 10 articles. they said we want to publish your articles. a close friend of mine wanted to meet me. i met him two or three days after. he gave a wonderful speech. and i went to him and i said i'm the man. >> rose: so you went back to paris. >> i was back in paris. >> rose: and all of a sudden you were with some of the most interesting intellectuals and part of the cultural elite of paris. >> i