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Christian Lacroix Faces Bankruptcy

Email thisPosted May 28th 2009 at 4:10PM by Maureen Dempsey

Christian Lacroix in a Sea of Models at Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture S/S 2009. Photo: Eric Ryan, Getty Images

French fashion house Christian Lacroix has filed for legal protection from creditors, reports WWD -- which is the U.S. equivalent of filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Job cuts and a possible sale are potential scenarios to rescue the fanciful brand.

Lacroix's CEO said the company's sales dropped 35 percent for the fall/winter season, and WWD infers that trouble was looming when its most recent runway show took place in a Parisian parking garage.

Christian Lacroix intended to spend his life in a museum, studying to be a curator. His wife's influence directed him to the fashion world, where he hit his design stride in the 1980s -- some credit the him with reviving the couture market.

Unfortunately, this appears to be just the beginning. High-end houses are feeling the pain globally. Many American designers scaled back from costly runways shows to low-key presentations for Fashion Week last February. In addition, a portion of Roberto Cavalli's empire is crumbling: Italian manufacturing company Ittierre, Just Cavalli's licensee, also filed for legal protection from creditors in February.

We're pulling for Lacroix and his whimsical wears.

Tags: bankruptcy, Chapter-11, christian lacroix, ChristianLacroix, financial trouble, lacroix

Gola Launches Christian Lacroix Designed Sneaker Collection

Email thisPosted Mar 20th 2009 at 10:00AM by Josh Loposer

Filed under: Shoes, Daily Obsession

For those of you who believe that sports and fashion go hand in hand, Gola has teamed up with Christian Lacroix to develop a line of haute couture sneakers, embossed and embroidered with a small French fashion house feel. You know what they say: fashion makes strange bedfellows -- wait, that's politics. Anyway, the collection hit shelves this week in the US and will be available exclusively at Lacroix's boutique stores in New York and Las Vegas.

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Tags: boutique, Christian Lacroix, ChristianLacroix, embossing, embroidery, French fashion, FrenchFashion, Gola, haute couture sneaker, HauteCoutureSneaker, Las Vegas, LasVegas, leather, New York, NewYork, soccer, sportswear

Gola sneakers go couture - do they score?

Email thisPosted Sep 24th 2008 at 8:20AM by Josh Loposer

Filed under: Shoes

Some people like to mix it up, get some high style points while still looking young and rebellious -- we get it. If that sounds like you, you may want to check out the product of team effort put forward by British soccer shoe company Gola and designer Christian Lacroix. The goal of this team was to bring a sense of couture to the usually sporty and utilitarian look of Gola footwear -- and to sell sneakers for $400. If you think they look kinda fugly, you're not alone.

While we applaud the adventurous spirit, we think these sneaks look like a pair of Golas had a lovechild with a BeDazzler. To us, the whole concept of 'couture sneakers' just seems a bit asinine. Either you go with the toned-down look of sneakers, or you for a more formal shoe. We make no bones about the fact that we love sneakers and think they can be very fashionable -- but they just can't do everything.

The couture sneakers trend kinda reminds us of the tuxedo t-shirt -- but in a bad way (if that's possible). These kicks kinda lack that sense of fashion irony.

[via Fashionista]

Tags: BeDazzler, Britain, Christian Lacroix, ChristianLacroix, couture sneakers, CoutureSneakers, Gola, shoes, soccer soes, SoccerSoes, UK

Bleeding for fashion

Email thisPosted May 22nd 2008 at 11:22AM by Tiffany Neal

Filed under: Vintage and Retro

"The dress is a rousing red, the color stroked on a white surface. But just as this rose-sweet outfit passes out of sight, there is a frisson of the horror movies that inspired it. Why is the lacy hose wrapped round the legs like a torn spider's web? Are those toothy fangs edging the pristine white shoes? And isn't this colorful dress drenched in blood?"

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