Christian Lacroix Quotes

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.

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

Italy is a divided country without a center.

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 not nostalgic for the past.

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

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

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.

Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.

We all look for lost time.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

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

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.

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

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

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

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

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

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

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.