{"id":7311,"date":"2009-12-01T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2010-05-09T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:39:00","slug":"no-happily-ever-after-for-lacroix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/no-happily-ever-after-for-lacroix","title":{"rendered":"No Happily-Ever-After For Lacroix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i13.photobucket.com\/albums\/a295\/Sugoygabba\/ChristianLacroixWedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pass the Kleenex, pronto: the house of Christian Lacroix has been hit by the wrecking ball, with the legendary empire being completely stripped down to include only accessories and perfume.<\/p>\n<p>After a <a href=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/fashion\/fashion-news\/curtains-for-christian-lacroix\" target=\"_blank\">steady downward spiral<\/a>, the French fashion house has been assigned a turnaround plan by Paris&#8217;s commercial court and will be forced to close both its haute couture and ready-to-wear lines, an action which eliminates 92% of its work force and leaves a terrible void in the already-unshaky fashion world.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still shocked at this turn of events and will greatly mourn the loss of the house, but we&#8217;re still glad (in a bittersweet way) that the Christian Lacroix name is (for now) able to avoid complete liquidation. \u00c2\u00a0<em>Bisous<\/em>, Christian &#8212; we hope you pull through!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/dec\/01\/christian-lacroix-fashion-house-closure\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a> {The Guardian}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the Kleenex, pronto: the house of Christian Lacroix has been hit by the wrecking ball, with the legendary empire being completely stripped down to include only accessories and perfume. After a steady downward spiral, the French fashion house has been assigned a turnaround plan by Paris&#8217;s commercial court and will be forced to close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1368,1364,1229,1261,394,58,45,1709,1708,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}