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

- Christian Lacroix

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

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

- 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

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

- Christian Lacroix

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix