Christian Lacroix Quotes

Fashion needs to be worn.
Christian Lacroix

Fashion, Needs, Worn

Italy is a divided country without a center.
Christian Lacroix

Country, Divided, Italy

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
Christian Lacroix

Different, Fashion, Same

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
Christian Lacroix

Yourself, Intimate, Exchange

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
Christian Lacroix

Bad, Made, Fashion

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

Design, Happy, Able

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix

Design, Except, Exists

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
Christian Lacroix

Everything, Books, House

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.
Christian Lacroix

While, Happened, Anxious

I am not nostalgic for the past.
Christian Lacroix

Past, Nostalgic

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.
Christian Lacroix

Love, Everything, Two

I look for friends who make me laugh.
Christian Lacroix

I never loved the world around me as it was.
Christian Lacroix

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
Christian Lacroix

Art, Business, Difficult

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix

English, Songs, Class

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
Christian Lacroix

Old, Looking, Books

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
Christian Lacroix

Fashion, Following, Fulfilled

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.
Christian Lacroix

History, War, Revolution

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
Christian Lacroix

Follow, Taste, Italy

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
Christian Lacroix

Idea, Name, Perhaps

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
Christian Lacroix

Child, Loved, Theatre

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
Christian Lacroix

Same, Idea, Everybody

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
Christian Lacroix

Time, Realize, Bothers

The world needs some excitement from fashion.
Christian Lacroix

Fashion, Excitement, Needs

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
Christian Lacroix

Able, Days, Depressed

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Nationality: French

Born: May 16, 1951

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