For this new
Parisian life
, the couturier is embarking on the staging.
A symbolic choice for this fashion and Paris icon who does not see the development of the capital with the best eye, three years before the Olympic Games.
LE FIGARO.
- What convinced you to sign your first production with
La Vie parisienne
?
Christian Lacroix.
-
This invitation came when I had just realized the last childhood dream that remained to me: drawing not only the costumes but the sets for a show, with
L'Hôtel du Libre-Échange
in Feydeau and
Le Songe d 'a summer night
of Balanchine.
And then when I greeted for the first time on a stage it was at the MET in New York in 1987 with Barychnikov, who had
covered
Massine's
Gaîté parisienne
on the music of Offenbach and had entrusted me with the costumes…
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What did Offenbach mean to you then?
Childhood memories.
My grandmother who sang her tunes.
Offenbach never left the scene.
There was also the cinema
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