Word: lacroix
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...staff (average age: 30) at Lacroix's salon on the splendid Faubourg St.-Honore exudes confidence. On the morning after last week's show, a pretty young American wisely arrived early to make a purchase: while Lacroix had presented 58 costumes, the house can deliver a total of only 120 pieces. She sighed, snapped shut her purse and said, "Oh well, another $9,000 on the American Express card." She is among the youthful clients haute couture should never have lost and whom Lacroix is luring back. Picart speaks proudly of Lacroix's popularity with show-business people, who usually...
With a salon where you can settle down, fool around with the clothes and schmooze with -- or at least step over -- the grand master, Lacroix is attracting other wealthy young people accustomed to haute ready-to-wear. Living for the city lights, they are the type who might sport a subtle Issey Miyake one night, an elegant Giorgio Armani the next...
...Lacroix's casual panache is what draws many young clients. Picart says many may buy only one outfit, and it may be a gift from a relative. The house does a big wedding business. In fact, Lacroix's first garment under his own logo was for the marriage of Pia de Brantes, a well-connected Paris publicist. What she got was a bright pink snap-together gown: the skirt and sleeves came off after the solemnities to reveal a hot little disco number...
...Lacroix's is the art of excess, and it works in part because of the knowledge of vanished grandeur he acquired while studying the classics and art history in college. Says Caroline Rennolds Milbank, author of Couture: "Since he knows all the good things that have happened in history, when women lived to look beautiful, he has a bigger vocabulary than a normal contemporary couturier. Any one of them has available to him the best embroiderer or flowermaker, but Lacroix probably has a bigger sense of the possibilities from having directly studied the past...
...Lacroix's billowing nostalgia envelops his own past. Not for nothing did he want to bring the sun and the sea right into his salon. His imagination is almost defiantly rooted in Arles and the rough Camargue area nearby. "I'm crazy about terra-cotta floors, primitive people, sun and rough times," he says. "This is my real side -- goat cheese and bread, elementary things." He warms to his subject. "I suppose that I am really double-faced. I am fascinated by Paris, its elegance, its women, even its artificiality; but with my heart and skin I love the South...