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Christian Lacroix
By Christine Suppes
Although Christian Lacroix can cut a simple gown that gains audience applause and appreciation, it is his dazzling, state of the art eighteenth century meets twenty-first, (and don't ever exclude the shocking pink stockings) that wins all of us over. Forget the daywear. Mr. Lacroix dropped his prêt-a-porter line last year, and lives in an exclusive world of wild nighttime fantasy and romance. Who needs daywear when life is this good? When ruffles graduate up the front of a gown to show off fabulously colored legs? You have always dreamed of mixing blues, yellows and reds? Call on Christian Lacroix. You want ruffles and bows that look as though they were made for a fashion angel and not a clown? Mr Lacroix, of course. Stripes? No designer does them better, especially on an eighteenth century style jacket, with lace and contrasting pattern. Mr. Lacroix did not show headwear this season, and clothes looked freer and more modern. New York cabaret music infused urban grace as the models swooped gently down the runway. The nonstop chitchat between front row attendees French First Lady Madame Chirac, and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Arnault, he the boss of LVMH and the house of Lacroix, reminded one of how cozy a country France really is.
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