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Christian Lacroix
French
Designer
About the author
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Taste
#Italy
#Elegance
#Individualism
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Fashion
#Choices
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,
French
Designer
#Books
#Paris
#Grandparents
#Sisters
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Old
#Books
#Clothes
#Grandparents
Italy is a divided country without a center.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Country
#Italy
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Idea
#Tea
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Time
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
There's always some kind of hidden logic.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Logic
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Design
We all look for lost time.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Time
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Songs
#English
#Class
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix,
French
Designer
#Design