Christian Lacroix

I am not nostalgic for the past. ”

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. ”

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. ”

I never loved the world around me as it was. ”

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

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

Italy is a divided country without a center. ”

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. ”

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

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