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Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. His continual interest in presenting fashion shows as highly theatricalized spectacles, with models as characters in a drama and clothes at times verging on costumes, won him applause as well as criticism.
With his respective appointments at Givenchy and Christian Dior, Galliano rose to international celebrity status as the first British designer since Charles Frederick Worth to front a French couture house. He has been a member of France's Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture since and is the winner of many prestigious awards, most notably British Designer of the Year in , , , and , and International Designer of the Year in Galliano, christened Juan Carlos Antonio, was born in Gibraltar in Galliano had a brief period of work experience with Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor, during his studies at St.
Martin's , as well as a part-time position as a dresser at the National Theatre. He graduated from St. Martins with first class honors in fashion design in His hugely successful final collection, Les Incroyables, was based on fashion motifs of the French Revolution and was immediately bought by the London boutique Browns, where it was featured in the entire window display.
Galliano launched his label in the same year and has designed in his own name ever since. Despite Galliano's rapid securing of a cult following and critical acclaim with such collections as Afghanistan Repudiates Western Ideals, The Ludic Game, Fallen Angels, or Forgotten Innocents, the business part of his early design career was most challenging.
With inadequate and unstable financial backing-the Danish businessmen Johan Brun and Peder Bertelsen were among his first backers-Galliano had to produce several collections on a limited budget; some seasons he was not able to show at all. Galliano's shows of this period sometimes relied on last-minute improvisations for the final effect-as in his Fallen Angels show when he splashed buckets of cold water over the models just before the finale.
Galliano began to work with the stylist Amanda Harlech, who worked closely with him until In he launched two less expensive, youth-oriented diffusion lines, Galliano's Girl and Galliano Genes.
By the early s, Galliano had become firmly rooted in London's club scene. This, combined with his first-hand knowledge of the theater, channeled his interests toward experimentation and rarefied eccentricity, while it also fed the self-styled reinventions of his personal image. Both remain Galliano trademarks. Galliano moved to Paris in , hoping for better work prospects.
His acclaimed spring-summer collection, inspired by his personalized fairy-tale version of Princess Lucretia's escape from Russia, opened with models rushing down the catwalk, tripping over their giant crinolines supported by collapsible telephone cables.
Thanks to the support of U. The show recreated the intimate mood of a couture salon, with models walking through different rooms in the house that held small groups of guests.
The interior of the house was transformed into a film set, evoking an aura of romantic decadence, with unmade beds and rose petals scattered about. Despite being composed of a mere seventeen outfits, the show used choreography and its exotic location to mark a momentous mids shift toward fashion shows as spectacles. A comparable mode of presentation was developed by Martin Margiela and Alexander McQueen around the same time. After some financially difficult years in London, he moved to Paris in where Vogue editor Anna Wintour, reportedly took him under her wing, finding him a backer, a venue and supermodels to wear his designs.
Galliano's often spectacular shows are inspired by history and his own travels around the world - everything from ancient Egypt to Masai tribesmen and 18th century equestrians. In January, his spring-summer Paris menswear show was themed on Siberian winters, Russian exiles and the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. A week later, for Christian Dior's fall-winter haute couture show he reverted to the New Look heritage of the Paris fashion house with creations inspired by s fashion illustrator Rene Gruau.
Known for his chameleon style, he is said to thrill fashion insiders at the end of each runway show by taking to the catwalk, always in an outrageous costume. Galliano had been suspended from work by Dior after video clips emerged showing him shouting anti-Semitic abuse at people in a bar in Paris last week.
The Design Museum's biography describes him as a great romantic but says "behind his gentle aesthetic, John Galliano is a powerhouse, a man whose ambition to go down in history as one of fashion's greats is awesome, even intimidating".
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