Rouge by Christian Lacroix Eau de Parfum Spray 50 ml

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In 2007, the designer also began a partnership with Avon to release a series of perfumes for men and women (Rouge, Noir, Absynthe, Nuit), in vividly-colored bottles stamped with elaborate designs. the photography may be of a different size of the same product. Please read the product description In the late Eighties, Christian Lacroix has overturned Saint Laurent’s prophecy in a manner that has sent the international fashion coterie into an ecstasy of hyperbole. From the moment Lacroix took over designing the couture collection for the ailing house of Patou in 1981, his ostentatious, elaborate, vividly coloured and vastly expensive creations began to make waves. Christian Lacroix is a French fashion designer who founded the house that bears his name. Born and raised in Arles, and displaying an early talent for art, Lacroix originally studied art history, with designs on a career as a museum curator. His entrance into fashion would come with a job as an assistant at Hermès, starting in 1978. From there, LaCroix collaborated with the Tokyo Imperial Court on costumes, and eventually found his way to Jean Patou in 1981.

With his feet firmly in the fashion world, LaCroix left in 1986 to launch his own house. His colorful and elaborate designs, often featuring mulitple patterns, elaborate ruffles, poufs and pleats, Lacroix's designs for many are the epitome of the over-the-top fashions of the 1980s. Praised for their beauty, sex appeal and sumptuous fabrics, and criticized at the same time for their impracticality, Lacroix's couture designs managed to make a name for the designer without earning him a lot of money. He expanded into ready-to-wear a year later, along with jewelry, handbags, shoes, glasses, scarves and ties. Lacroix boutiques were opened in Paris, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, London, Geneva and Japan. The designer launched his first menswear collection in 2004, and also served as Creative Director of Pucci from 2002 to 2005. not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage arising under these terms and At the unveiling of his first own label collection last July, fashion editors, swept up in the maelstrom of publicity, stood on chairs to weep and throw flowers at the newly-crowned king (they did much the same last week). Had Parisian couturiers in their dark years ever dreamed of the coming of a saviour, these scenes would surely have surpassed their wildest fantasies. Lacroix, it seems, is the biggest news in Paris fashion since the emergence of Yves Saint Laurent himself, some 30 years ago.

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Lacroix reinvented the trapeze line and the bubble skirts Saint Laurent had pioneered in the Fifties, but this was no mere re-run of the past. Lacroix’s women were baby dolls in frou-frou petticoats, his silhouette a shoulderless cone, which made sitting down impossible. Giving full rein to the dying couture intricacies of beading, embroidery and all manner of fancy-work – and using the most extravagant of materials – he piled effect upon effect, with no heed to caution or good taste. Tales of mink dyed green and violet, of pompoms, quilting, patchwork, tassels and exuberant clashing prints drew increasing numbers of onlookers to the house of Patou, many biding their time to decide whether he was merely a vulgar clown, or truly a fledgling genius.Our liability is limited and excluded to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. We will