John Galliano - Designer

[reese06]

It was hard to find the Galliano name in that dress wore by the official face of Dior Anya Taylor-Joy.
All the sites describe it as "Archival Dior".
Why they didnt want to describe as vintage Galliano for Dior?
Galliano and Grazia Face to Face in Dior ateliers.

Because the only time they ever really reference Galliano is in reference to the Saddle bag. I don't know if MGC was given a directive or if she just gravitated more to Bohan, but she hardly ever mentions Galliano, it's always Bohan and Dior himself.

They probably still want to distance themselves from the scandal. especially with today's climate. Just yesterday, Vogue posted about the Lacroix acquisition and used Anna Wintour's first Vogue cover image w/ model Michaela Bercu. The comments are Israeli flags, comments in Hebrew, also accusatory because Vogue did not credit the model who is Israeli and also responses to those comments about Palestine. Dior wants to remain non confrontational as it's still very much a conservative brand with a wide umbrella of customers. Why poke the bear?

I don't think it's a mistake that when we see archival Galliano, it's an understated look that can easily be credited as archival or vintage.

 

[blueorchid]

I don't know if MGC was given a directive or if she just gravitated more to Bohan, but she hardly ever mentions Galliano, it's always Bohan and Dior himself.

Reminds me of the Dior book I read (can't remember the title) that had more designs by MGC than Galliano in it, I think it was only published a few years ago.

 

[proseccotabis]

Look at that fu#king dream right there all in a single photo the power of galliano my God that's beautiful it's art

Praying that he will continue creating in a brand that gives him enough liberty and comfort

 

[blueorchid]

The book I mentioned with the mild Galliano-erasure is this one: Dior: The Legendary 30, Avenue Montaigne. It's actually cute when it discusses the founding of the house and the layout/structure of it all. The book gets fishy in the section with designs from the Dior Archives, it includes about the proper amount you'd expect from the other designers at Dior, but the amount of outfits by Galliano vs. MGC just ain't right.... I'll have to grab it off the shelf and re-count.


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[CholoChic]

It was incredible how the name of John Galliano was erased with hate from the Dior headquarters, from the "Heritage" section in its web site to the museums where Galliano designs shined by themselves without the designer credit. The He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named rule felt strong.

 

[Caffeine]

It was incredible how the name of John Galliano was erased with hate from the Dior headquarters, from the "Heritage" section in its web site to the museums where Galliano designs shined by themselves without the designer credit. The He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named rule felt strong.

I had thought that virtue signaling was so 2023...

 

[LadyJunon]

The erasure of Galliano is quite funny, considering that if it wasn't for him, MGC and KJ wouldn't have a platform for their hideous sh*t.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

The best Dior exhibition ever was held in 2017 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (next to the Louvre Museum) and it had, literally, one Maria Grazia dress 🤭 A tiny, tiny room at the end with a Disney princess outfit.

Ok, I know, I know, she was appointed in 2016... but in retrospect it feels so correct.

 

[Lola701]

Because the only time they ever really reference Galliano is in reference to the Saddle bag. I don't know if MGC was given a directive or if she just gravitated more to Bohan, but she hardly ever mentions Galliano, it's always Bohan and Dior himself.

She has to mention Mr Dior (for obvious reasons) but she gravitates more towards Bohan sensibility but she quietly campaigned for the rehabilitation of John.
I remember when French TV interviewed her in her early days, I was surprised by how candidly she mentioned John. I though she didn’t get the corporate memo.

She definitely helped in the conversation around easing his name back.
And of course, she re-released the saddle and it was impossible to not talk about John.

And she has always expressed respect towards John.

She is similar to Alessandro Michele with Tom Ford. During the Frida era, Tom Ford was the name to not mention, they didn’t featured his iconic designs in the Gucci Museum.
Alessandro was the first one to ever mention him and eventually, he referenced him.

For us fans of fashion, there’s no discomfort to mention John’s name but we also can minimize the impact of his downfall on the entire company(I think about the seamstresses and the creative team). And we know that Dior is the baby of Bernard Arnault…

 

[MagFan]

“Christian Dior, Designer of Dreams.” in Paris happened in 2017, this book is from 2022, no one tried to erase him from that and all the following exhibits, he always had segment dedicated to his years with his big portrait on the wall. His design was always included in small installations when there were one from each designer. Stop overreacting. The only things they could be blamed for are questionable selections and Laziz Hamani poor photography in every book