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| | Christian Lacroix (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Born in Arles, in the south of France, in 1951, Christian Lacroix has brought sunshine into haute couture with his palette of colours, daring to blend every one of them, making him an advocate of the "neo-Baroque" style. |
 | | His hammer-wrought, gilt metal jewellery, his lace of Arles and his taffeta bustles continue to infuse life into luxury which, in his hands, is drawn from its customary reserve to venture between modernity and tradition, technology and heritage, reinterpreting with brio the popular cultures of all the countries of the world. |
 | | Christian Lacroix, to whom the Marseilles Museum of Fashion recently dedicated an exhibition, also designs costumes for the theatre and opera: for Carmen by Bizet, staged at the Nîmes arena in 1989, and, more recently, for Phèdre by Racine, at the Comédie Française, in Paris. |
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