Lacriox was born in southern France.  At a young age he began sketching historical costumes and fashions.  Around 1974, he met Jean-Jacques Picart.  Picart was press attached for several haute couture houses and provided aid in gaining Christian a job working at Hermes in 1978, where he worked on colour schemes and execution of designs, and then Guy Paulin in 1980.  After graduating from the Ecole du Louvre, he started working at Jean Patou, where he worked until 1987.  With help from Jean-Jacques Picart, Lacriox managed to put out seaason after season of popular clothing.  Bright colours, luxuriance, and perfection made Picart and Lacriox popular designers of the CFDA for foreign designer of the year 1987.  He then opened his own couture house.  He began putting out ready-to-wear in 1988 drawing inspiration from diverse cultures.  Critics commented that he did not seem to understand the type of clothing the working woman needed.  He then launched jewellery, handbags, shoes, glasses, scarves and ties (along with ready-to-wear).  In the same year he opened boutiques within Paris, Arles, Toulouse, London, Geneva and Japan.  With his background in historical costume and clothing he soon made the headlines with his opulent, fantasy creations including the short puffball skirt (le pouf), rose prints and low necklines.  He quoted widly from other styles-from fashion history (the corset and the crinoline), from folklore, and from many parts of the world-and he mixed his quotations in a topsy-turvy manner.
Christians A/W 2009 Haute Couture was privately financed by Lacriox and each model was paid $50.  "I didn't want to cry," said Lacriox "I want to continue, maybe in a different way, with a small atelier.  What I really care about are the women who do this work" Lacriox said about this collection.