Christian Lacroix Quotes & Sayings

#1. 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.

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#2. We all look for lost time.

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#3. The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

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

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

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

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#7. I am not nostalgic for the past.

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

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

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#10. The world needs some excitement from fashion.

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#11. Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

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#12. You need ego but mine is not blinding.

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

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#14. There's always some kind of hidden logic.

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#15. I never loved the world around me as it was.

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

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#17. I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

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#18. With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

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#21. For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. Italy is a divided country without a center.

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#25. 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.

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#26. French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

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#27. 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.

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

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#29. 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.

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