[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art must be beautiful. Artist must be beautiful. Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.12,0:00:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art must be beautiful... [Mumbles] Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.94,0:00:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art must be beautiful. Artist must be beautiful... Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.14,0:00:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 70's, when artist had red lipstick and nailpolish, and any kind of relation to fashion, Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.13,0:01:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was discussed like being a really bad artist, that's how you want to approve yourself, Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.98,0:01:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you cannot do it with your work. It was a big "No, no, no, no." Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.40,0:01:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was presenting myself only in one way, very austere, very monastic. Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.13,0:01:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, in the old days, the performance clothes was always the same, Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.78,0:01:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All naked, or dirty black, or dirty white. That was it, you know. Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.57,0:01:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never lipstick, never nailpolish, never high heeled shoes, very kind of strict. Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.48,0:01:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost masculine view of myself. And when I started working on my own in the begging of 70's, Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.40,0:01:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My work was really going to the, pushing physical limits to the point Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.17,0:01:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll probably have an accident or some terrible ending. Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.25,0:02:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Man and woman] Ahh..... Ahh..... Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.93,0:02:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ahh... Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.20,0:02:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ulay, how I see now, he was really this new solution that we can put to invent this together, Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.01,0:02:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Create something like a third identity. Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.01,0:02:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so Ulay came like a blessing to me. Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.65,0:02:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it really worked. Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.93,0:02:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ahh...Ahh...Ahh... Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.66,0:02:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as a relationship works, it comes to an end, which was very difficult for me, Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.49,0:03:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I hate failures, and I didn't want to somehow admit that it actually didn't work anymore. Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.00,0:03:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, it really came to the end, and this was why such a perfect form of ending was the Chinese wall. Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.34,0:03:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I finished walking on the Chinese wall and said goodbye to my partner, Ulay. Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.27,0:03:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was the most painful moments of my life and everything crashed with me. Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.31,0:03:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My work and my private life. And I was a kind of zero. Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.47,0:03:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just wanted to laugh. I wanted laughter, I wanted to be alive again. I wanted to be happy again. Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.53,0:03:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just wanted to be female again. Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.33,0:04:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I finished the Chinese wall, I didn't need to prove to anybody anything anymore. Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.88,0:04:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was really the turning point for me, Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.71,0:04:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I said,"Okay, I think I am okay artist. I can really enjoy myself and embrace fashion." Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.75,0:04:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was another liberating thing. And I really think it's okay. I'm not ashamed of this. Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.36,0:04:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is totally vanity. And it just shows the contradiction. Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.24,0:04:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, yes, I can sit 736 days in a museum in MoMA, an extremely hard performance. Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.25,0:04:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the day after had Givenchy organizing the fashion dinner, in which I had this amazing dress, Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.48,0:04:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Created by Riccardo Tisci, and the jacket was made from 101 snakes. Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.90,0:04:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least, I'm sure they died natural deaths, but nevermind. Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.31,0:04:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, getting all this fashion attention at 65 is very different. Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.49,0:05:01.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are doing with 20, twenty somehow is natural. Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.75,0:05:06.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now I'm sixty-five. And I was on the cover of V magazine, in fashion. Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.80,0:05:13.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's much more fun, because it somehow boosts my confidence in myself, Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.51,0:05:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which I never had that much, as a woman. As an artist, yes.