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In retrospect it seems like fashion was Galliano’s destiny, but that’s not exactly how the story unfolded. While enrolled at the City of East London college, the young Brit took a once-a-week art class. “I already loved drawing and I was told I was quite gifted. So... I ended up going to these classes and spending more and more time than I should have. And I liked the crowd there,” he relates.
Once at Saint Martins, pen and paper continued to be Galliano’s preferred medium. He became “lost more in history and illustrations and cartoons, and the way they depicted characters and often summed up a line.” Galliano hadn’t planned on making a graduate collection, but was encouraged by his tutor, Sheridan Barnett, to pick up a pair of scissors and follow his illustrative lines in cloth. The rest is history. Tune in to hear Galliano share more of his journey.
“We recreated the Parisian rooftop scene and then covered it with snow as the girls prowled around and over the rooftops.”—John Galliano on his fall 1995 Dolores collectionJohn Galliano, fall 1995 ready-to-wear“Galliano is now living his ‘Empire’ dream, of Josephine hair and absintlie-drinker’s eyes.”—from “Couture Unzipped,” by Philip Weiss,
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