With texts by Christian Lacroix

Patrick Mauriès

Olivier Saillard

Photographs by Grégoire Alexandre

Foreword by Béatrice Salmon

“这不是个回顾史，但在里边我也精心选择了超过400套的高级定制服装，可以看到那是每个不同时代的杰作，是博物馆级的古董，当然，这些服装更是未经展览过的。它们于我来说就像良师益友，我从里边得到了大量的灵感。他们还像一本历史书，我可以从他们那里事无巨细地读到关于时装的历程和改变。我想说当我还是一名学徒的时候，我就希望可以将那些古董高级定制时装们收集起来做个博物馆，而我就是那个博物馆主。 我淫浸于时尚圈超过20多个年头，在书中我会介绍一些内容。除此之外我更是选择了一些1987年到2007年Maison Lacroix的高级定制时装中最棒的一些系列，还以一个特殊的次序展示给大家，例如从黑白、彩色、花卉、民族风等等诸如此类的顺序，就像是博物馆一样井井有条，让读者们可以一目了然。” —— Christian Lacroix

Fashion is a fascinating story that never ends, and Christian Lacroix is the most seductive of storytellers.

Lacroix is one of the most inventive and admired fashion designers in the world. He is also incredibly well-versed in fashion history, and he brings that expertise to bear in this delightful imaginary museum of historic and contemporary fashion.

‘I chose those that were most inspiring, those that best told the story of fashion that I would have wanted to tell if I were the museum curator that I intended to be when I was a student.’ – Christian Lacroix

Each featured piece – whether from costume collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs or the House of Lacroix – is distinguished by its cut, its detail, its colour and its texture,

and the pieces are juxtaposed and photographed in a way that emphasizes their relationships across the centuries.

Christian Lacroix is one of the most fêted fashion designers of our time. Patrick Mauriès is the author of numerous books, including Cabinets of Curiosities. Olivier Saillard is a fashion historian and curator at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Grégoire Alexandre, a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Photographie in Arles, is one of France’s most acclaimed fashion photographers.