Christian Lacroix Quotes
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Italy is a divided country without a center.
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The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea
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I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
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Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
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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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We all look for lost time.
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There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing
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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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The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
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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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For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
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I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.
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They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
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Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
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There's always some kind of hidden logic.
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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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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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Fashion needs to be worn.
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I never loved the world around me as it was.
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French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
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The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
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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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I look for friends who make me laugh.
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I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines
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But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
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I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.
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If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
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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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The world needs some excitement from fashion.
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I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
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