About Christian Lacroix: Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
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.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
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.
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.
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
Italy is a divided country without a center.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
The world needs some excitement from fashion.
Fashion needs to be worn.
I never loved the world around me as it was.
I am not nostalgic for the past.
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.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
