John Galliano - Designer

[Caffeine]

And I am assuming that it is today also.
Karl was the exception, not the rule. He did have a father who was 100% business minded. The work ethic and business mind never left his DNA.

 

[Caffeine]

And can we imagine that if they had a whatsapp group, Karl would have told John, what the heck are you doing John. You are throwing away money and life. Etc.
Then we wouldn't have to endure the torture of jwa or mb

 

[Lola701]

And I am assuming that it is today also.
Karl was the exception, not the rule. He did have a father who was 100% business minded. The work ethic and business mind never left his DNA.

And can we imagine that if they had a whatsapp group, Karl would have told John, what the heck are you doing John. You are throwing away money and life. Etc.
Then we wouldn't have to endure the torture of jwa or mb

Karl wasn’t an exception. There are designers who have a different sense of responsibility and at large in fashion and other creative fields, you have people who know that they can only count on themselves.

There are others who are used to being saved. Even when people are doing substance, they move differently when they have the sense of responsibility. No need to call a celebrity friend, the CEO, the PR or Anna Wintour for an intervention.

I can name a ton of designers like that, from Karl to Hedi, from Jean Paul to Valentino, from Nicolas to Azzedine and others. Even people like Phoebe or Stefano who had more than allegations, were more responsible in the way they conducted themselves than Marc, John, Kate, Naomi and others.

I mean the situation at Bottega Veneta with a Daniel Lee vs a Matthieu Blazy was quite telling no. And they have managed to pretty much hide everything surrounding the exit of Lee. They replaced him with someone who had a sense of responsibility and who didn’t need the intervention of the EIC of Vogue to kind of vouch for him in any kind of way.

But when the thing happened Karl was mad and was vocal on French TV. He was mad at John and if I remember well he said something like John was Arnault’s favorite and it was stupid of him to act that way considering the ideal working conditions he had and that a lot of people would envy.

He was one of the few if maybe the only one who didn’t expressed a « support » to John which is telling because Karl was one of the few from the old guards who welcomed the Brits and American in Paris in the 90’s when Pierre Bergé and others were calling them « Costumiers » or using very derogatory terms to describe their work.

 

[marines]

 

[jeanclaude]

Beautiful...but it´s literal f/w 1994 (not sure if vintage, a re-edition; or a remake) .

 

[Lola701]

Beautiful...but it´s literal f/w 1994 (not sure if vintage, a re-edition; or a remake) .

You don’t imagine how much it annoys me to see that everytime, those celebrity stylists are just replicating the runway look, down to the hair and make up and will get credit for it!
« We were inspired » no, you copied another stylists’s work.

 

[kasper!]

Was the original runway look styled by Amanda Harlech?

 

[Lola701]

Galliano for Zara is not something I expected but Maria Ortega is working harder than the devil!
The check must be insane…

 

[marines]

 

[Lola701]

As someone who is trying as much as I can to not buy from those brands (even if a life without Uniqlo and COS seems difficult nowadays) I may fall for it…
If it’s as good as the Zara Atelier collections from years ago.

The real question for me is: under whose name those collections and this collaboration are going to be signed?

Because if it’s signed under John Galliano, it will mean that he may have reached some kind of settlement with LVMH regarding the use of his name and possibly the rights of his company?

 

[Deleted member 183337]

My wallet is going to suffer I fear, money will mysteriously leave my bank accounts due to unforeseen circumstances. The CCP may ban me like FanBingBing for unarranged overdrafts

 

[WinstonH20]

Happy for John. Meisel or Roversi will no doubt be involved in the visuals.

But....he's going to be re-interpreting Zara's archives? What "archive" does a brand like Zara have? That's like saying the H&M archives.

 

[Royal-Galliano]

As someone who is trying as much as I can to not buy from those brands (even if a life without Uniqlo and COS seems difficult nowadays) I may fall for it…
If it’s as good as the Zara Atelier collections from years ago.

The real question for me is: under whose name those collections and this collaboration are going to be signed?

Because if it’s signed under John Galliano, it will mean that he may have reached some kind of settlement with LVMH regarding the use of his name and possibly the rights of his company?

it will probably bear some generic name similar to what jil sander did with uniqlo?

 

[Royal-Galliano]

Happy for John. Meisel or Roversi will no doubt be involved in the visuals.

But....he's going to be re-interpreting Zara's archives? What "archive" does a brand like Zara have? That's like saying the H&M archives.

these released portraits are by szilveszter makó.

 

[DK92]

I'm super happy! I hope they create campaigns with amazing visuals; we need that.

 

[Deleted member 183337]

What I suspect the purpose of this is.. his 2 year partnership with Zara is to raise brand awareness for the eventual return to his own maison.

Bringing the Galliano name to the high street is quite clever strategically only because in order to relaunch JG, the brand needs to be financially viable in today's market. If there’s demand I’m sure the JG brand will make its return

 

[marines]

 

[susseinmcswanny]

I wanna participate but I’m too tall for Zara clothes ☹️

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

The "Zara Archives" is literally everything that was successful in the last 20 years, from Ghesquière's Balenciaga, to R. Tisci's Givenchy, to Marc Jacobs' Vuitton to PPhilo...
It can be like a huge amusement park for John.

 

[Salvatore]

Consider me somewhere between gagged, excited, and perplexed. I did not see this coming whatsoever, but maybe he can redeem himself with this. Let's see.

I wanna participate but I’m too tall for Zara clothes ☹️

Their trouser legs are incredibly short indeed.