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Christian Lacroix was born in 1951 in France. He presented his first collection in 1987. Lacroix offers a full range of clothes, accessories and jewellery.
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Christian Lacroix is one of the most influential and colourful couturiers in the world, who is known as the "man with the magic paintbrush" because of his ability to mix astounding colours together.
Christian Lacroix was born in 1951, in the Arles region of South France. He was the adored son of a family of engineers. His father and grandmother were very fashion minded.
From 1970 to 1972 he studied art at the Paul Valery University, in Montpelier followed by the Sorbonne in Paris. He was interested in the cinema and now has total recall of films and cine-dress, as well as fashion crazes of the time. In 1972, he enrolled for History of Art, at the Sorbonne University, Paris. After graduation, during the 70's, he worked as a free-lance shoe designer, an accessory designer for Hermes, and as a design assistant for Guy Paulin.
In 1974 he married Francoise Rosenthiel.
He started his career as a fashion sketcher and worked as an assistant at Hermes. In 1981 he joined Jean Patou through Jean de Mouy. Patou was a dusty name at that time, and he completely revamped the company, tripling the sales.
One of Lacroix's favourite models is Marie Seznec. She has a very youthful face, but prematurely grey hair. The effect is startling. Lacroix found that his garments were shown to great enthusiasm when she wore them. So she has become the face of Lacroix throughout the 80's.
In 1986 Lacroix was awarded the "De d'or" (golden thimble) for his couture collection by the Paris couture authorities. In 1987 he received the Oscar for the Best Foreign Designer from the Council of Fashion Designers, of America.
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