John Galliano News & Analysis

Ready-to-Wear - Spring 2021

No Going Back at Margiela

7 October 2020 • By Tim Blanks

John Galliano has never been afraid of excess, but there’s something about the language he has developed at Margiela that simultaneously, paradoxically releases and tames it.

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Ready-to-Wear - Spring 2021

No Going Back at Margiela

John Galliano has never been afraid of excess, but there’s something about the language he has developed at Margiela that simultaneously, paradoxically releases and tames it.

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Tim's Take

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: John Galliano, Ready-to-Wear Autumn/Winter 1994

24 July 2020 • By Tim Blanks

Virtually penniless, a string of fashion fairy godmothers granted Galliano an opportunity to spin his magic once more. What the audience saw was a mere 18 looks: still one of the most convincing arguments for “less is more” that BoF's editor at large has encountered in his more than three decades in fashion.

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Tim's Take

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: John Galliano, Ready-to-Wear Autumn/Winter 1994

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The Death of Fashion Shows? Not So Fast.

3 July 2020 • By Tim Blanks

‘I come to praise shows, not to bury them,’ writes Tim Blanks as he kicks off a journey through his top fashion shows of all-time.

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The Death of Fashion Shows? Not So Fast.

‘I come to praise shows, not to bury them,’ writes Tim Blanks as he kicks off a journey through his top fashion shows of all-time.

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Ready-to-Wear Autumn 2020

Frisson of Tradition at Maison Margiela

27 February 2020 • By Tim Blanks

There’s an intensely poignant edge in John Galliano’s work, in full effect on Wednesday. He's made Maison Margiela his sanctuary, the place he belongs.

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Ready-to-Wear Autumn 2020

Frisson of Tradition at Maison Margiela

There’s an intensely poignant edge in John Galliano’s work, in full effect on Wednesday. He's made Maison Margiela his sanctuary, the place he belongs.

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Haute Couture - Spring 2020

A Dream of Defiance at Margiela

23 January 2020 • By Tim Blanks

The raw apocalyptic glamour of the show was also a perverse tutorial in the art and craft of clothes-making.

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Haute Couture - Spring 2020

A Dream of Defiance at Margiela

The raw apocalyptic glamour of the show was also a perverse tutorial in the art and craft of clothes-making.

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At Maison Margiela, From Liberation to Darkness

7 October 2019 • By Tim Blanks

The show was John Galliano's most accessible distillation of the manifesto he is shaping around his designs.

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At Maison Margiela, From Liberation to Darkness

The show was John Galliano's most accessible distillation of the manifesto he is shaping around his designs.

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The Future of Maison Margiela

29 July 2019 • By Laure Guilbault

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The Future of Maison Margiela

Can the revered label owned by Renzo Rosso’s OTB build a sustainable business?

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Maison Margiela: On the Cusp of Revolution?

7 July 2019 • By Tim Blanks

John Galliano delivered an anarchically beautiful collection born from our new digital decadence.

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Maison Margiela: On the Cusp of Revolution?

John Galliano delivered an anarchically beautiful collection born from our new digital decadence.

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At Couture, Clothes Versus Concepts

5 July 2019 • By Angelo Flaccavento

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At Couture, Clothes Versus Concepts

Only at John Galliano’s Maison Margiela did concept and clothing truly fit together, reports Angelo Flaccavento.

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Promise and Threat at Margiela

28 February 2019 • By Tim Blanks

There was something restrained about this show, all the way to the last look, which felt like John Galliano was holding fire, poised, plotting his next assault on orthodoxy.

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Promise and Threat at Margiela

There was something restrained about this show, all the way to the last look, which felt like John Galliano was holding fire, poised, plotting his next assault on orthodoxy.

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