For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. — Christian Lacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. — Christian Lacroix Artificial Copy Share Image
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. — Christian Lacroix Ballet Copy Share Image
If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled. — Christian Lacroix Design Copy Share Image
With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things… — Christian Lacroix Christian Copy Share Image
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To… — Christian Lacroix Behinds Copy Share Image
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the… — Christian Lacroix Catwalk Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world. — Christian Lacroix Entire world Copy Share Image
“But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times… — Christian Lacroix Time Copy Share Image
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme. — Christian Lacroix Able Copy Share Image
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. — Christian Lacroix Clothings Copy Share Image
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing — Christian Lacroix Able Copy Share Image
I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream. — Christian Lacroix Childhood Copy Share Image
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea — Christian Lacroix Cup of tea Copy Share Image
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. — Christian Lacroix Couture Copy Share Image
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business. — Christian Lacroix Art Copy Share Image
I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep. — Christian Lacroix Anxiety Copy Share Image
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry. — Christian Lacroix Bad choices Copy Share Image
People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone… — Christian Lacroix Clothes Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. — Christian Lacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in… — Christian Lacroix Andrew Copy Share Image
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed. — Christian Lacroix Bother Copy Share Image
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. — Christian Lacroix Communication Copy Share Image
For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is… — Christian Lacroix Alive Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Back Copy Share Image
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines — Christian Lacroix Book Copy Share Image
