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The French designer Christian Lacroix, known as the “man with the magic paintbrush”, he has an amazing talent to mix astounding colors together. His bright color palette includes colors like; magenta, bright pinks, orange, yellow, reds, blues and greens, and sometimes all in one outfit. His designs are easily recognizable because of their colorful character.
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix was born in France and the name may also refer to the company he founded.
Christian Lacroix began his design career interning with Hermès. Later, he moved on the fashion house of Jean Patou, where Lacroix remained until 1987, when he opened his own couture house. In 1988, Lacroix began constructing his ready-to-wear collection.
One year later, he expanded the line to include handbags, jewelry, shoes, glasses, scarves and ties. His business flourished, and he opened boutiques in Paris, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, London, Geneva, and Japan. In 1999, Lacroix launched his premiere floral perfume line, followed by a line of novelty accessories including semi-precious jewelry.
Between 2001 and 2004, he launched a children’s line, a women’s lingerie line, and a menswear collection. He worked as the Creative Director for the Italian fashion house Emilio Pucci from 2002–2005.
Christian Lacroix has designed many dresses for Hollywood stars; among them, he is responsible for designing Christina Aguilera’s wedding dress and in the 1990s was famed as being a favourite designer of Edina Monsoon.
Christian Lacroix has completed interior design work at several landmark hotels, including the Hotel Le Petit Moulin in Spring, 2005; the Hotel Bellechasse, right in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris), in 2007 (a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World); and in 2010 Le Notre Dame hotel just a step from the cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Paris.
Christian Lacroix has had a double bite of the fashion cake. The Eighties belonged to him and by 2008, he was back again. Originally he intended to become a museum curator – in fact, he is a fashion impresario, who is widely credited with single-handedly saving couture, wooing the media with his wildly photogenic designs.
