Biography
Christian Lacraua - French fashion designer and designer. In 1987, a creative figure founded his own fashion house, but left the brainchild in 2009, after a bankruptcy statement. The creative biography of Lacraum is diverse.Embed from getty imagesStarting as a browser, he retrained into a fashion designer, and then tried his hand as a theater artist, cooperating with the famous scenes of the world. The famous Frenchman also developed a design for several hotels in France. In the press, Kuturier is called "Master with a Magic Brush".
Childhood and youth
Christian Lacraua was born on May 16, 1951. His hometown is a provincial French Arles. The boy was the son of engineers and the only child in the family. The parents of the soul in it did not care and tried to give the child the best. They put the taste to Christian, as they themselves were well focused in fashion trends.
Lacrau Jr. was interested in design clothes from childhood. He liked to look at the ancient fashion magazines stored on the grandmother's attic. The favorite place of the boy became the museum of costumes, which was next to his house. Already then he knew representatives of famous brands and dreamed of becoming the Second Christian Dior.
Deciding to get an education in a specialty that was always close to him, Lacraua graduated from the University of Montpellier in 1973, where he studied the history of the arts. He was able to replenish the piggy bank in Sorbonne at the faculty of the history of the arts, which was subsequently entered. It is curious that Kristian wanted to work as a museum as a teenager. He was fascinated by the beauty of the Louvre, so the young man went to the courses at him. Lacra was interested in cinema. He was attracted by the magic of cinema and how the costumes of the heroes look on the screen.
Fashion
Having graduated, Christian began work by profession. At first he was engaged in design shoes. He happened to work with the Hermes brand as a fashionable browser and assist French designer GI Polenu.A large role in the professional formation of a fashion designer played his future spouse. With the assistant Jean-Jacques Picart, Francoise, Christian met, being a student. The girl helped him join the world of high fashion and become in it "his own." In 1981, Lakrua got a fashion house in Jean Fashion House. By the time the brand was in forgetting, and the young fashion designer managed to breathe life into him. He tripled the sales volume of the employer, which was the first loud success.
In 1987, the designer felt the strength to create his own fashion house. He left the prevail of the Patus and, using Sponsorship Agache Co. Ltd, created the first high fashion salon. 2 decades in Paris no one dared to such a step. Lacraus confidently declared himself and began to create designer collections. He was inspired by Modern, every fashionable Look lard with paints and a combination of bright colors. During this period, the fashion designer 2 times became the laureate of the Golden Thrust Prize.
Critics emphasized the theatricalness of the style inherent in Lacra. Suitable for work Couturier, the shock changed the look at the fashion of that time. In the outfits from Christian Lacraua, world celebrities regularly appeared in public. In his dresses, Princess Diana went, with which the fashion designer tied up warm friendship, and Ceboribriti constantly made orders in the fashion house.
The fashion designer was interested not only by clothes. He worked on the creation of accessories, including bags and shoes, glasses and hats, jewelry, scarves and watches. The fruitful author worked enthusiastically and a lot, conquering all new peaks.
In 1989, Christian Lakrua released the debut collection of Pret-A-port, and a year later, he developed his own part of the perfume, which was included with C`est La Vie toilet water. For a long time, this fragrance remained the only one in the collection of the author. Only in 1999, a peculiar addition to him in the form of spirits called Christian Lacroix was on sale.
Interests Kuturier were famous for diversity and inspired, finding a reflection in the works. In an interview, Christian Lakrua often said that he was inspired by the eastern traditions, the culture of the Middle Ages and is interested in the epoch of Napoleon.
In 1995, a line of casual clothes for young people under the Bazar brand was published. It was a triumph of Lacra. At the same time, Christian has developed a line of furniture and home decor items. Each season, the inspired wizard produced 5 collections: high fashion, rushing-a-port for men and for women, own ruler, as well as a line for the house of Fashion Pucci, where he worked as a creative director for several years.
In 2004, the artist decided to experiment, developing the design of the 100-year edition of the classic dictionary of the French language. The publication is supplemented by its drawings of letters in the form of intricate patterns, plants and animals. Christian decided to repeat this experience later in collaboration with the author of his biography of Camille Morton.
In 2005, Lacraua announced his house to the mod bankrupt and transferred the brainchild in the management of American businessmen. Subsequently, the owners of the brand, the Falik family, invited the fashion designer to return and take the post of artistic director, since the position of Christian fully corresponded to their vision of the brand. Now there are more than a thousand boutiques of Christian Lacra. In 2010, great attention was paid to the development of the brand in the United States, Japan and Korea.
Today, Christian Lakrua acts as a theater artist. The presence of profile education and delicate taste allow the couturier to create unique costumes for theatrical frames of different countries of the world. These outfits also viewed the distinguishing style of the master.
Lacra's works are notable in that it prefers outstanding free cut, chooses pyramidal and trapezoidal silhouettes. His clothes are inherent ease, multi-layered and airiness. Live plants are often used as decorative elements, and jewels become jabs, ruffles and corrugated collars. A distinctive feature of the dresses from Lacra is embroidery, similar to the one that is present on the historic costume of Spain. Embroidered elements are often complemented by jewels.
Among the branded accessories Lacraum volumetric, bulky decorations, berets and felt hats, colored capes, embroidery gloves and catchy straps, scarves with fringe and so on.
Personal life
Having become acquainted in 1973 with Francoise Rosenthal, Christian Lakrua no longer parted with the girl. Officially, the pair issued relations in 1991. A random acquaintance, who became a friend, and then his wife, knew exactly how Christian should build a career.
She introduced a young man Karl Lagerfeld and Pierre Berge, having enlisted with the support of Matters of High Fashion. For a beginner designer, the girl became a guide in a successful future.
Despite the fact that in marriage the couple did not appear children, the personal life of Lacra and Rosenthal was happily. Joint photos of spouses appear on the reversals of glossy magazines.
Christian Lakrua now
In 2019, the fashion designer continues to engage in his favorite business. Now he pays great attention to work in the theater. Lacroua costumes are involved in the productions going to Comedy Francoise, the theater of the Champs Elysees and Opera comedian. The designer continues to illustrate the books and worries on his own book. Periodically, he gives an interview media.
In 2019, the interest of journalists for Person Lacraua stirred the appearance of a personal account of the designer in the social network "Instagram". Couturier demonstrates in his profile ready-made work, projects over which reflects at the moment, and describes interesting facts from their own life.