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Christian Lacroix

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

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"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

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"Italy is a divided country without a center."

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"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

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"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

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"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."

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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

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