Christian Lacroix. Written by Saxony Dudbridge Saxony Dudbridge was one of the first contributors to the Catwalk Yourself project, Saxony studies International Fashion Marketing and she is responsible for our great History and Designers Biographies sections. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Lacroix also carried on using a glittering palette of colors. His designs became more abstract and the dresses more simplified, their architecture more apparent.
Previously, the decoration had been designed before the dress; now it came into play only after the dress had been constructed. That is probably the key" du Bure, p. Lacroix has turned his fashion world into a stage, designing for more than twenty ballets, operas, and plays. In he signed a new contract with LVMH, the owner of his couture house.
He divides his time between his responsibilities as artistic director of this couture house and his own company, XCLX. The list of his projects is long and varied and his commissions ever more spectacular. Spectacle is inherent to his vision: "The Lacroix woman is staged in a theatrical fashion. She is not afraid of being noticed; for her one can imagine nothing that is bland Alessandrini, p. In Lacroix was named artistic director of the Florence ready-to-wear house Emilio Pucci.
Lacroix describes French haute couture as "eternally dying and paradoxically constantly being reborn from its ashes" Sausson, p. The things we think we know about Christian Lacroix are restricted to the what, and the when, rather than the why. He had a fondness for the high-gloss of duchesse satin, clashing together various colours — like his signature shades of shocking pink, hellfire orange and a sickly gooseberry chartreuse — in a single outfit.
In all likelihood, those jarring colours would then be paired with further hues, or juxtaposed against brocade or embroidery, perhaps swooshed over with an old-fashioned fichu or apron, the fabric knotted up into a bow, or a bustle, or a big fat cabbage rose. It was, simply, about more. Because 30 years after his eponymous haute couture house was founded and almost a decade after it closed, Lacroix is back with a vengeance. Not the man himself. Perhaps that should be Lacroix-esque, or Lacroix-ish, their lines inspired by, rather than derivative of.
Although, truth be told, young socialites have already been buying and wearing archive Lacroix pieces. Namely, Lacroix. A Christian Lacroix dress was a junk bond, a corporate raider, a chintzy interior by Mario Buatta, perhaps decorated for Donald and Ivana Trump. The influence seeping through to designers is varied, and multilayered. No, this is Christian Lacroix, the contract designer for the past 17 years.
Since he turned his back on fashion he has turned his talents to theatre design, exhibitions and a new carpet collection for Danish company ege, just launched Christian Lacroix is a name known by many, largely owing to his fame in the fashion world between the Eighties and the beginning of the new century — but others will also know him from a second career carved in contract design after his high-profile departure from his label Christain Lacroix Paris in the late s.
His unique styling sees his design work blending together classic and modern to create stunning costume collections, theatre design, exhibitions and even carpet design among others, with his sketches also something to be desired. Sketch by Lacroix for an interior. His passion was — and had always been — in costume design. The demand for Lacroix gowns meant setting up his own label — Christian Lacroix Paris — which saw exquisite dresses and fabrics on the catwalks under his leadership from the Eighties to the s.
In the mid s he sold his label, which was then quickly sold on again to the Falic Fashion Group.
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