Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ lakʁwa]; born 16 May 1951) is a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea
The world needs some excitement from fashion.
For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
I never loved the world around me as it was.
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
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.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.
Italy is a divided country without a center.
Fashion needs to be worn.
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
I am not nostalgic for the past.
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.