Daily Inspiration Quote by Christian Lacroix

It lands like an offhand compliment, but it’s really a sly diagnosis of how taste gets outsourced. Lacroix invokes that familiar refrain - the idea that mid-century “best design” is either Scandinavian or Milanese - not to litigate chairs and silhouettes, but to point at the cultural machinery that crowns certain geographies as arbiters of modernity. The wording matters: “They say” floats the claim as received wisdom, the kind of consensus that travels faster than evidence. It’s a designer’s ear for the chorus of trends, critics, and market gatekeepers.

The subtext is a quiet pushback against the way the ‘50s and ‘60s get flattened into a two-city, one-region myth: Denmark-and-friends for democratic minimalism, Milan for sleek industrial chic. That story is clean, exportable, and easy to sell - especially to postwar consumers hungry for a future that looked rational and restrained. It also leaves out the messier truth: modern design was a multinational argument shaped by rebuilding economies, new materials, mass production, and media images of “good living.”

Coming from Lacroix - a French couture figure known for maximalism, color, and baroque exuberance - the line reads like a knowing eyebrow raise. He’s not denying Scandinavian or Italian excellence; he’s noting how prestige congeals into brand identity. The quote captures the moment when “good taste” becomes shorthand: not a debate, a destination.