Christian Lacroix Quotes
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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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You need ego but mine is not blinding.
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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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French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
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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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The world needs some excitement from fashion.
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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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Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
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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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Fashion needs to be worn.
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I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
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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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The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.
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There's always some kind of hidden logic.
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There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
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I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.
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Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.
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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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I am not nostalgic for the past.
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But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
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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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The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
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We all look for lost time.
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Italy is a divided country without a center.