Lacroix Quotes & Sayings

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

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way. — Darren LaCroix

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

I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff. — Lucien LaCroix

Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing. — Jennifer Saunders

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

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase. — Christian Lacroix

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

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white? — Regina King

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

Why would Henri come to her rescue? She was hardly charming. Her company was irritating at best. And she'd been a complete bitch to him. She'd even hit him. He probably preferred ladies who didn't curse or drink or sleep around. — Maggie LaCroix

I translated Beatles songs for my English class. — Christian Lacroix

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone. — Adriana Lima

Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing — Darren LaCroix

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

I'm not like you," he said. "I used to be like you, but I'm not anymore."
"What are you? A vampire?"
He had to laugh. "Of course not!"
Then, he blurted it out. "We're zombies."
This time, Josie drew her hand back, cradling it as if it had been wounded by its contact with his skin.
"Zombies? Like in the movies? But how? You guys are so . . . sexy! — Maggie LaCroix

Your effort is noted and you will be laid for it. — Abigail Roux

My name is Samhain Corvus LaCroix. I am a necromancer.
Now, if only I could say that with a straight face. — Lish McBride

Henri had lost a lot of bodily functions when he died - he didn't eat, breathe, or sleep anymore - but other things had stayed, thankfully, such as his electrified response to Josie's tactile wandering. — Maggie LaCroix

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

My town has an "Adult" store that's been there for a while, despite the fact that a lot of people protested it during the planning stages, because they thought it would bring drugs and hookers and cheap used furniture into town. Wait. That's Craigslist. Nevermind. — Rodney Lacroix

I look for friends who make me laugh. — Christian Lacroix

Fashion needs to be worn. — Christian Lacroix

And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God ... must it be sane? — Lucien LaCroix

All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need ... — Darren LaCroix

For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive. — Christian Lacroix

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. — Christian Lacroix

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

So what if he didn't have a heartbeat? The boy was a keeper. — Maggie LaCroix

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

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Italy is a divided country without a center. — Christian Lacroix

There's always some kind of hidden logic. — Christian Lacroix

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

They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like the living dead. — Maggie LaCroix

If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices. — Michael Shnayerson

I am not nostalgic for the past. — Christian Lacroix

She held his stare, waiting for a clue to his intentions - a smile, a nod, even a frown. But he just looked straight at her, his eyes boring holes in her, reaching inside and lighting a fuse line of heat down to her belly. It seemed to last an eternity, that stare. — Maggie LaCroix

To be the best, learn from the best — Darren LaCroix

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

The audience wants you present, not perfect. — Darren LaCroix

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

Feeling grateful is good; showing appreciation to those you feel grateful to is sublime. — Andy Lacroix

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past. — Christian Lacroix

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. — Christian Lacroix

Sex contained all sorts of promises - I love you, I will see you again, I will not hurt you. It bonded people. It took down defenses. It made humans do unwise things with their hearts and their money. — Maggie LaCroix

The world needs some excitement from fashion. — Christian Lacroix

To me she looks like a big black ant - a big black ant in an original Christian Lacroix - eating a urinal cake and I almost start laughing, but I also want to keep her at ease. I don't want her to get second thoughts about finishing the urinal cake. But she can't eat any more and with only two bites taken, pretending to be full, she pushes the tainted plate away, and at this moment I start feeling strange. Even though I marveled at her eating that thing, it also makes me sad and suddenly I'm reminded that no matter how satisfying it was to see Evelyn eating something I, and countless others, had pissed on, in the end the displeasure it caused her was at my expense - it's an anticlimax, a futile excuse to put up with her for three hours. — Bret Easton Ellis

The living could not possibly understand what it felt like to be a monster. And the extremes to which a monster would go to be at peace. — Maggie 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

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. — Christian Lacroix

Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes. — Christian Lacroix

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

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

We all look for lost time. — Christian Lacroix

I never loved the world around me as it was. — Christian Lacroix

The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience. — Darren LaCroix

Sometimes he wished his fate was someone else's, but, of course, it could never be. Fate is not a fake $5 bill. It can't be unloaded on the next poor sucker in the French Quarter. — Maggie LaCroix

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me. — Patrick Roy

You need ego but mine is not blinding. — Christian Lacroix

What part of no magic did you not understand, Henri? — Maggie LaCroix

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

Why is it always the wackadoos who're so good in bed? — Abigail Roux