Christian Lacroix is a high-end fashion designer. Born in Arles, France, Lacroix started his career at Jean Patou in 1981. In 1987, he launched his own ready-to-wear business.
It has been one of the most talked about shows in Paris Fashion Week Fall 2009 and with good reason! The clothes were mesmerizing and Daria glowed on everyone! Daria wearing Lacroix Daria wearing Lacroix Daria wearing Lacroix Daria wearing Lacroix Even in backstage she rocks! No questions asked! Daria Backstage Daria Backstage Read Full Story
"Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self." -Bram Stoker, Dracula A.K.A. the Green Fairy, La Fee Verte, is an exotic libation famed for inspiring Bohemian artists, seducing gents to madness, and irking politicians in modern times. For a substance that doesn’t have nearly the potency of many other drugs, this liquor has quite a history and mystique. Classically known to contain wormwood, it is also famed to have hallucinogenic properties. Goth Icon Marilyn Manson was even moved to create his... Read Full Story
For his last ever show (though we pray for the future of fashion it is not) Christian Lacroix has chosen a darling to grace his catewalk - Daria Strokous. The memory of her beauty wearing this masters creations will live in our memory for years to come and hope for many more!! Christian Lacroix - Runway Christian Lacroix - Runway We love you Christian Lacroix!!!! Stars like you shine forever in our hearts!!!! Read Full Story
Take a look at designs by Christian Lacroix at the Audi Fashion Festival Singapore held yesterday. I'm totally feeling the "around the way" 80s looks that models are wearing these days: Big earrings, braids, colored chunked hair. Also the layers, colors, and florals. Dope! (Photos by Stefen Chow/Getty Images AsiaPac) Read Full Story
United Arab Emirates Sheikh Hassan Ben Ali al-Naimi made a formal offer on Thursday to take over Christian Lacroix, four months after the French couture house filed for bankruptcy, the firm's administrator said. The offer presented to a competition tribunal for approval was made "in partnership" with the designer, said a statement from the sheikh's lawyers. The sheikh, who is close to the ruling family of the Ajman emirate, stepped in last month to take over the fashion house after Italian... Read Full Story
The outlook for beleaguered French couture house Christian Lacroix looked bleak at the weekend after potential buyers let a deadline pass to deposit cheques ahead of Tuesday's bankruptcy court hearing. The fate of the house's employees was grimmer still, with only 11 out of more than 100 workers likely to keep their jobs in a best-case scenario. But the judicial administrator Regis Vaillot said: "It is not all over yet, anything could happen," predicting that new players could emerge in the... Read Full Story
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Will a last-minute bid be enough to save Christian Lacroix? Photo: Pierre Verdy, AFP/Getty Images
Time may be about to run out for the Christian Lacroix label, but fashion fans are hoping a last-minute effort could save the company. According to WWD.com , an Ajman sheik has placed a bid to keep Lacroix's operations running. Word is not yet out on whether contracts have been signed, however, the story states. Back in May, the fashion house was placed... Read Full Story
The outlook for lavish French couture house Christian Lacroix looked increasingly bleak Tuesday as a French tribunal adjourned bankruptcy hearings with no fresh news of a buyer. "To this day, bidders to take over the firm have not justified the means of financing their company plans, or at least not sufficiently," said judicial administrator Regis Valliot after a three-hour hearing at the Paris tribunal. A new hearing was set for December 1 and Valliot said both an Emirati sheikh and a... Read Full Story
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The current spokesman for the high fashion Italian label Gucci is having a bit of fun with the luxurious hand that feeds him. James Franco made a spoof commercial for the site Funny or Die in which he struggles to pronounce the brand's name . Really, we don't care how he says it, we could just watch his hotness all day.
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Christian Lacroix's fashion house is to be dismantled after a Paris bankruptcy court approved a plan to shut down the firm's clothes design activities and axe nearly all its staff.
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