lacroix by lacroix.

In homage to my favorite couturier of all time and the empty black hole left by his disappearance from the couture shows this season, here are some scans from my personal copy of Pieces of a Pattern: Lacroix by Lacroix. Part autobiography, part collage, part inspiration book, part archive, I highly highly recommend tracking down a copy. It is glorious.

All I know is that, while forever following the track of some mysterious Ariadne's thread, I shall always oscillate between a chaste delight in purity of form and a rapturous intoxication with ornamentation. For couture is both these things at the same time. I know that I shall always have a horror of empty space, and that I shall always fill it relentlessly with flowers or paintings -- even though I have also experienced the exhilaration to be had in black and white...And I know that I shall always enjoy true snobbery, when it signifies a genuine difference -- sadly now disappearing in matters of elegance -- just as much as the modest sequins of the fairground performer. Christian Lacroix