Lacroix Christian was born in 1951
in Arles, France. As a child, Lacroix have had a strong sense of art and
design; he likes putting together little albums on theater and opera, collages
assembling family portraits. In
1973, He left Arles to study art hisoty in Montpellier, Paris. At the same time
Lacroix wrote a master’s thesis on French costume in the paintings of the
seventeenth century, he took courses at the Ecole du Louvre to become a museum
curator. His wife was the one encouraged him to become a fashion designer. In
1978, Lacroix worked for Hermes where he learned the technical aspects of the
profession. He got the Golden
Thimble award for dresses designed in 1986. In the same year, the chief officer
of the luxury operation LVMH supported financial needed for Lacroix to open his
own couture house. Lacroix’s creation manifested his fascination in the history
of clothing. He puts the mixture of luxury, youthful, baroque, and
sophisticated into his designs.
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