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Christian Lacroix
Friday September 28th, 2012
Thursday July 14th, 2011
14 Ways to Celebrate Bastille Day in Style
Today is Bastille Day! So whip out your baguette and brie sandwich and brush up on your French.
If there was ever a fashionable national holiday, Bastille Day is it. French culture has become so iconic and romanticized, that’s it hard not to spend every July 14 wistfully pretending to take a nonchalant stroll along the Seine. To make your celebrations a little more French, we’ve rounded up 14 great items that’ll turn any party into a real fête.
Check out the goodies we selected for an awesome Bastille Day celebration.
Thursday January 20th, 2011
Fashion News Roundup: Lacroix is Back, Amy Poehler Models, and Hamish Bowles Shaved Off His Stache
Tim Gunn, Weight Loss Cheerleader: Though he’s never been overweight himself, the Project Runway host says that he’s partnered with Weight Watchers to inspire self-esteem through fashion. {Stylelist}
More Reasons to Envy Megan Fox: The sultry starlet and tennis pro Rafael Nadal show off their nauseatingly perfect physiques in the latest Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans ad campaigns shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. {WWD, subscription required}
The Downfall of Fashion Designer Katayone Adeli: In the late 90′s Adeli’s designs were everywhere. Now, she’s in court. {Fashion etc}
Amy Poehler Does Candy Striper Chic: The comedienne apparently did some modeling before her SNL days. {Jezebel}
Christian Lacroix is Back!:The couturier and Desigual have teamed up to create a “dream collection.” We’re beyond excited to see what the duo comes up with next season. {Desigual Blog}
Monday July 12th, 2010
Lacroix’s New Creative Director Hopes to Revive Couture in the Future
Besides Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen, there is no designer in the world with a more enviable/terrifying job than Sacha Walckhoff, the new creative director at Christian Lacroix.
Walckhoff’s been working at Lacroix in some capacity or another since 1992. He started as a knitwear designer, moving onto diffusion line Bazar, then to jeans, and eventually menswear. In 2000, he left the company full time to consult for brands like Kenzo, but returned in 2003 when Lacroix began spending more energy working on his collections for Pucci.
The Swiss-French designer has been at Lacroix’s side ever since, through the last two years of financial trouble right, culminating with the company filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2009.
It wasn’t until after Lacroix–the man–announced he was breaking all ties with the company, that CEO Nicolas Topiol and Miami, Fla.-based investors the Falic Group asked Walckhoff to come on as Creative Director.
Walckhoff’s first ready-to-wear collection? Menswear, which is funded by a licensee. Women’s pret-a-porter and couture are part of the future, but not the present.
Christian Lacroix, The Man, Designs Coins
PARIS–From Karl Lagerfeld playing editor-in-chief, to John Galliano being made a national hero, France gives fashion figures as much respect as it does to those in any other field.
So it’s hardly surprising that Christian Lacroix was just named artistic advisor of La Monnaie de Paris: the state-funded organization in charge of designing and making French Euro coins, as well as national medals of all sorts. Despite Lacroix’s recent, saddening financial troubles, he remains an illustrious ambassador for his field and his country–so who better to ask about matters of classical Frenchness?
This weekend, the local press revealed that the designer will be in charge of designing limited editions of coins, as well as the PACS medal (French gay marriage), and the Marriage medal (the trinket given when getting married under French civil law).
Friday July 2nd, 2010
Six Designer Collaborations We Didn’t See Coming
It seems like everyone is pairing up with a designer these days, but from diapers to sponges, some partnerships are definitely wackier than others. Here are six collaborations we never saw coming:
Monday May 10th, 2010
Ten Luxury Brands Worth Investing In
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a startup advisor and writer based in Paris. He really, really likes luxury and fashion. And sorry ladies, he’s married. You can follow him on Twitter though, at @pegobry. From an economic perspective, luxury is a sector as fraught with peril as it is with reward. The rewards are immense: The best Read more →
Tuesday April 20th, 2010
Anna Wintour’s “Intellectual Crush” on Irving Penn, and More From Last Night’s Lecture at Pratt
Last night’s Pratt Institute tribute to Irving Penn was one for the books: Anna Wintour gave a moving 20-minute tribute to Penn’s life and work, and Hamish Bowles taught what was virtually a master class on the style and genius of Vogue photographers since Edward Steichen. The event was part of Pratt’s President’s Lecture Series. Read more →
Tuesday January 26th, 2010
Gucci to Launch a Couture Collection? That’s the Word From Milan
It’s couture week in Paris, but Frida Giannini’s stealing a bit of thunder in Milan. Word is she wants to start a couture collection for Gucci. Initial thoughts? You can’t just become a couturier, you have to be certified by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, and membership isn’t granted lightly. Secondly, the WWD Read more →
Monday January 25th, 2010
Yes, You Can Still Run a Successful Couture House
While plenty of tears were shed after Christian Lacroix’s final couture show last summer, the imminent demise of the craft has been talked about for decades. As the 2010 spring/summer season kicked off yesterday, the topic has risen to the top of the conversation heap yet again. But here’s the thing. Couture will never die. Read more →
Friday December 4th, 2009
“Paris has a long history of creative men and women who in spite of their own generosity of spirit and imagination just never succeeded in making the fortunes they seemed to deserve. That’s the way it is.” –Cathy Horyn on the whole Lacroix situation.
Thursday December 3rd, 2009
Investing in Thom Browne
It was announced this morning that the Japanese Cross Company has acquired a majority stake in Thom Browne. As beloved as Browne is by the industry, we’ve known for quite a while that he was struggling. Back in March, there were canceled orders and the possibility of bankruptcy was very real. The designer got a Read more →
