jean paul gaultier, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ou think of the label, the ‘enfant terrible of the fashion world', about you, now you are in your early 6057 i should say that now you can't say that, i am the ex—enfant terrible. i am now the old man terrible of french fashion! still, a little. you don't mind it. you were never actually formally trained in design. you sent some pictures... some sketches. exactly. i didn't go to school. to cardin, on the day i was 18 years old. i sent the pictures on the day of my 18 years old. pierre cardin called my mother and said, "i want to see him." when i came back she said, "you have to go to see cardin." i asked her to come with me because i was so frightened to go and meet him. he said, "how many days can you work?" i was still finishing my studies. i said three afternoons. say, 0k, work. an amazing break. laurent didn't get back to you. you stayed for a short time with pierre cardin and then you joined jacques esterel. a small couture house, very different from pierre cardin. this was all in

jean—paul gaultier, thank you very much for coming on the programme.ime for a spectacular light show. we have had some pretty great pictures of the aurora borealis coming in. one from the outer hebrides. i love this green one from argyll and bute. a stunning one here from cumbria as well. a lot of clear skies across the northern uk. that means there is going to be a touch of frost. chilly air out there right now, but not everywhere. across east anglia and the south—east, we have that weather front, moving across the uk during tuesday, which has ended up across east anglia and the south—east. for norwich and london, temperatures around four, five, six degrees, those sorts of values. for the rest of the uk, out in the countryside, it could be as low as minus four degrees. mist and fog around as well, but generally speaking, lots of clear weather. anglia and the south—east could be gloomy and drizzly in the morning. the weather will improve here, but it will take time for that cloud to break up. the rest of the country, beautiful and sunny. light winds, c