Christian Lacroix Quotes

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

I am typically French.

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

France is the most civilized country there is.

You can be an American or an Englishman or Canadian and be a Parisian. It's a very admirable culture, and people want to identify with it.

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

France is great because she is France.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.