Christian Lacroix Quotes

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

I used to love the '20s.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

I am embarrassingly 1920s in style.

I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

Fashion does seem to have a '20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. It's a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.