Things are looking grim for Christian Lacroix. With only a few weeks until Couture Week, Christian Lacroix – whose namesake brand filed for court protection from its creditors in Paris last month – is still waiting for someone to come and save his house. In an odd twist, one of the designer’s major clients approached him with an offer to rescue the floundering house. The French couturier rejected the offer, however, saying that he prefers having the women as “a client rather than a chairwoman.”
In the meantime, Lacroix is hoping to be able to show his work in a presentation of some sort during July’s Couture Week in Paris, and so he continues to sketch despite having no real budget. Reportedly there is not even a photocopier in his design studio. The designer is carrying on for his seamstresses, he says, noting that “they deserve it, even if we can’t show it. I can’t stand having them do nothing during this period because they have it in their blood. January and July, it’s couture. It’s a physical clock.”
