Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.

- Christian Lacroix

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

Italy is a divided country without a center.

- 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

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

- Christian Lacroix

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

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

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 am not nostalgic for the past.

- Christian Lacroix

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

- Christian Lacroix

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

- Christian Lacroix

I never loved the world around me as it was.

- Christian Lacroix

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