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…

- 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

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

- Christian Lacroix

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

We all look for lost time.

- Christian Lacroix

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

- Christian Lacroix