Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix was born in the southern French town of Arles in 1951 and from a very young age, he was interested in the fashionable clothes of the middle class as well as the traditional garments worn by the rural folk of Provence.

As a young man he was taken on by Hermes and three years later, by Jean Patou, where he was artistic director until 1987. After receiving several awards during the late '80s, he finally opened his own fashion house in Paris in 1987.

Lacroix's new styles present a frenzied fusion of plaids, prints and tartans that bombard the senses with their intimate interplay and intoxicate the eyes with their cocktails of colour. Lacroix's mastery of the luxurious and heavier fabrics, the hand-crafted tweeds and platinum leather, is evident in his breathtaking suits and exquisite jackets.

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