Christian Lacroix Quote

So much contemporary art and design is a parody, a joke, and full of allusions to the past. It's like that because it is the end of an era, like the end of the nineteenth century. Not such a comfortable period to live in. Everything must be a kind of caricature to register, everything must be larger than life.


Quoted in the Sunday Times October 1987


So much contemporary art and design is a parody, a joke, and full of allusions to the past. It's like that because it is the end of an era, like the...

So much contemporary art and design is a parody, a joke, and full of allusions to the past. It's like that because it is the end of an era, like the...

So much contemporary art and design is a parody, a joke, and full of allusions to the past. It's like that because it is the end of an era, like the...

So much contemporary art and design is a parody, a joke, and full of allusions to the past. It's like that because it is the end of an era, like the...