Christian Lacroix is one of the most inventive and admired fashion designers in the world. He is also incredibly well-versed in fashion history, and he brings that expertise , delightful imaginary museum of historic and contemporary fashion.
Each featured piece – whether from the museum’s collection or the House of Lacroix – is distinguished by its cut, its detail, its colour and its texture; and the pieces are juxtaposed and photographed in a way that emphasizes their relationships across the centuries. Fashion is a fascinating story that never ends, and Christian Lacroix is the most seductive of storytellers.
Legendary Lacroix is an illustrator who has perfected the technique of computer generated fashion sketches, which are loose and highly expressive.
While photography may have replaced illustration as fashion’s dominant recorder, it remains an elegant alternative which tells a different story through a unique interpretation of the artist’s vision. Rather than creating a purely carbon copy of a model and her outfit, fashion illustration is the artist’s own take on it – a version which blends fashion and art to create something which is dreamlike elegant, classic and beautiful, making it well suited to capturing the world of haute couture in graceful, economical and teasing lines; powerfully suggestive with a delicate side
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