A biography for Christian Lacroixhasn’t been written yet.
“I am not nostalgic for the past.”
“There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.”
“French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.”
“But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.”
“I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.”
“If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.”
“The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.”
“Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.”
“The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.”
“Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.”
“I translated Beatles songs for my English class.”
“You need ego but mine is not blinding.”
“I look for friends who make me laugh.”
“The world needs some excitement from fashion.”
“Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.”
“In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.”