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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.

- Christian Lacroix

Love, Still, Months, Pad

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.

- Christian Lacroix

Play, Been, The History Of, French Revolution

I look for friends who make me laugh.

- Christian Lacroix

Me, Look, Make, Make Me Laugh

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

- Christian Lacroix

Design, Artificial, Exists, Modernism

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

- Christian Lacroix

Taste, Bourgeois, Codes, Adhere

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

- Christian Lacroix

Think, Always, Needs, Reconcile

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.

- Christian Lacroix

Want, Other, Everyone Else, Tribes

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

- Christian Lacroix

More, Allow, Otherwise, E-Mail

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

- Christian Lacroix

Design, Furniture, Say, Scandinavian

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

- Christian Lacroix

Following, Would, Fulfilled, Fashion Designer

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

- Christian Lacroix

Drawing, Only, Able, Depressed

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

- Christian Lacroix

Grandparents, Old, Books, Experienced

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

- Christian Lacroix

World, Some, Needs, Excitement

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

- Christian Lacroix

Songs, Beatles Songs, Translated

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

- Christian Lacroix

Happy, Very, Still, Extreme

Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.

- Christian Lacroix

Beautiful, Skinny, Very, Clothes

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

- Christian Lacroix

Some, Hidden, Always, Logic

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

- Christian Lacroix

Ego, Need, Mine, Blinding

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

- Christian Lacroix

How, Notion, Bothers, Photographs

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

- Christian Lacroix

Theatre, Loved, Opera, Ballet

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

Generation, Like, Going, Paris

Italy is a divided country without a center.

- Christian Lacroix

Country, Italy, Center, Divided

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

- Christian Lacroix

Always, Been, Anxious, Asleep

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

- Christian Lacroix

Tea, Seeing, Everybody, Clad

I am not nostalgic for the past.

- Christian Lacroix

I Am, Past, Am, Nostalgic

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

- Christian Lacroix

Jewelry, Bad, Made, Bad Choices

Fashion needs to be worn.

- Christian Lacroix

Fashion, Needs, Worn

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

- Christian Lacroix

Idea, Been, Could, Influenced

We all look for lost time.

- Christian Lacroix

Time, Look, Lost

I never loved the world around me as it was.

- Christian Lacroix

Me, World, Never, Loved

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