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

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix

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

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
Christian Lacroix

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

Italy is a divided country without a center.
Christian Lacroix

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

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

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

There's always some kind of hidden logic.
Christian Lacroix

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
Christian Lacroix

We all look for lost time.
Christian Lacroix