Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix
Christian Marie Marc Lacroixis a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth16 May 1951
CountryFrance
clients fifteen french french-designer mystery react swiss
For fifteen years I've had Swiss clients who tell me that it's a mystery how the French react to their own artists, especially the painters.
french-designer future looked radical return seemed
But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.
beginning codes
I wanted to go back to the beginning and to the codes of the house.
filter france french-designer paris store successful
The Paris store Colette is successful because it's a filter for things that are made elsewhere. It's the kind of store France needs.
taste individualism elegance
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
drawing able
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing
years looks realizing
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
design modernism artificial
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
design furniture scandinavia
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
ideas clubs seven
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.
world
I never loved the world around me as it was.
looks lost lost-time
We all look for lost time.
logic kind
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
two drawing months
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.