Sacha Walckhoff. Photo by Antoine Tempé
Christian Lacroix’s creative director, Sacha Walckhoff worked hand-in-hand with Christian Lacroix himself for 17 years. A year ago, he re-opened the French house heading it with a new focus on menswear and accessories. An avid collector of art and design pieces as well as ancient costumes, his Paris apartment brims with souvenirs of a lifetime spent in the fashion world. Believe it or not, Walckhoff claims he was once a minimalist. Admiring the dizzying mixture of paraphernalia in the famously eccentric abode, we asked Walckhoff to narrow it down for us and name his favourite items:
1. My naturalized zebra found at the Paul Bert market; I like its passe-muraille (walking through walls) aspect, which is fantastically surrealistic.
2. The piece ‘Vanilla’ by Daniel Firman (Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery). It’s a real-size mold of one of his friends, with an inner tube emanating the smell of vanilla… surrealism again!
3. My Lacroix notebooks. They follow me everywhere around Paris and on trips. I write and sketch whatever crosses my mind…I give one to those who are dear to me.
4. My two “one minute sculpture” by Marcel Wanders, whom I greatly admire (one of the two was given to me by Christian Lacroix)
5. The ‘Clay Fan’ by Maarten Baas, another very talented designer I discovered at the Tools gallery.
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