Christian Lacroix worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Christian Lacroix as French fashion and theater designer (born 1951).
Christian Lacroix was born at Arles in 1951. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and École du Louvre.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as grand couturier, designer and postage stamp designer.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
