John Galliano S/S 06 Paris

[Ghost]

but i'm somehow disgusted by the old ladies with young gigolos and young ladies with sugar daddies.

 

[agathe]

I'm really not a fan of the presentation either. It's like he's mocking them instead of embracing them...

However, I am a fan of the dresses!

 

[5AvenueMarceau]

Goodness me, I love it. Completely didn't expect to, especially when I saw the midget couple. I agree with metal and those others of like opinions, at first I thought they were going to be seperated from the models, just like a side or freak show to the fashion event.

 

[Ceptuouse]

I think his idea about making clothes for different bodies didnt work...because to be honest, If your a midget - 1st. Would you go to John Galliano for clothes, and 2. would your rtw option be a wedding dress

 

[iluvjeisa]

I like the idea of the show but nobody looks better than Galliano himself, hehe, hot rocker Galliano. Yum

 

[Salvatore]

Is very odd, but in a good way. I was thinking Moulin Rouge also. At least it woke me up

 

[adorefaith]

i dont have anything to say about the clothes....
i cant even FOCUS on them.....

but as for the message....
everybody is beautiful.....LOVE is all there is....
amen....

i applaud galliano for celebrating and showcasing that.....

 

[Lucia-]

How disgusting!

 

[Ella]

I also don't think they should be paraded down a catwalk to indulge some weirdo's fashion fantasy. Galliano is really the queen of othering and Orientalization.

If Galliano really was celebrating the variety and differences in people he wouldn't present them as fashion show freaks in the process. Also his flair for exoticism (something discussed on this board before) is taken right out of a 1920's rascist cartoon with where some ethnic group is reduced to savages and their features over exaggerated.

I agree with you two. I don't understand how he gets away with doing something like this season after season and even gets applauded for it.

 

[iluvjeisa]

I agree with you two. I don't understand how he gets away with doing something like this season after season and even gets applauded for it.

I guess it's because many think that these midgets and fatties look quite adorable in their own little way. I think so, anyway.

 

[j´adore dior]

i think it will be most perfect collection among this paris season if the clothes were put on the real models

cannot agree more, i´m with metal on metal and mutterlin too, i´m not entirely convinced he did it for people to laugh at them but yet again im not also convinced thats a way to prove we are all the same, i will much rather see the collection on models and in an editorial with other people for example, like mcqueen did years ago, but the theme of the collection without "different" people would have been a bit repetitive for him, although i would have loved it much more.

 

[Tinuviel]

THE FAT LADY HAS SUNG

omg i was NOT prepared for that.. you just made me spit green tea all over my keyboard! If it spoils I'm blaming you. The whole lurid spectacle reminds me of that creepy show Carnivale + color.

Love love love that gold sequinned burnt ochre dress on the red haired twin. Ai & Gemma look fabulous as well as the model in #113. The smaller guy next to her is a cutie! I really liked what John was wearing himself and a few of the men's suits. If anything, this was entertaining.

 

[Ms. Diorella]

Couldn't John just model all the clothes himself? That would be funny.

That would be too much haha!

Overall a fabulous show, love the recognition of different shapes and sizes and a lot of the pieces are beautiful, as always he always know how to put on a fabulous show

 

[tiffany]

I'm really not a fan of the presentation either. It's like he's mocking them instead of embracing them...

Perhaps its just my misplaced optimism talking, but I really think he's celebrating them And to me that's lovely

I love the clothes, the vibrant colours - and the Gemma puppet especially I wish they marketed those puppets! I'd buy one

 

[Deleted member 7575]

So it turns out this collection was partly inspired by Diane Arbus. There is going to be an Arbus exhibit at the V&A. The show was a nod to her according to Penny Martin on showstudio.com


and arbus did not celebrate her subjects...she mocked and exploited them after gaining their trust and getting to know them.

 

[Tinuviel]

^ that's disturbing...

I wish they marketed those puppets! I'd buy one

I would too!

 

[Marcella]

this is amazing.

 

[birdofparadise]

Criticism is certainly valid...but I feel that some of what's being thrown at Galliano...and at Ms. Arbus in particular, who is one of the most insightful and honest photographers ever, is more than slightly undeserved, very emotional, not learned. There are, obviously, various ways to interpret the show and his inspirations, which he didn't steal from all that much, if you're familiar with Arbus' work. To me, it's about a personal comfort, a familiarity with self, an assuredness that is usually absent from fashion, which serves to assimilate, to stifle insecurities through the masquing of luxury and false intellectualism.

What's most intriguing about John's presentation is that, from a sorta kinda formalistic point of view, he is not passing judgement on his models. He's simply using them to display his clothing, which is how it's usually done in Paris during fashion week. It's their prescence that makes posters on this forum feel uncomfortable. It's almost as if some don't feel people who look like this should be on a catwalk because their beauty is thought to be...inaccessible (inferior). They don't look like you, they don't look like anything you'd want to look like and so they're inappropriate and should be handled with kid gloves and locked away and not photographed because treating them like you would any model at a fashion show is somehow condescending.

That scares me much more that anything Galliano could put on a runway. And yet, it's designed that way. The fact that he seems to be exploring the more base aspects of human emotion this season is unexpected and laudable.

 

[helena]

For me it is that these people ARE hidden away from the public and that "celebrating" them...more like exploiting them for a fashion show spectacle seems a bit degrading. The clothing is obviously reminiscent of the era where such people were put on show as freaks and amusements and it's pretty much the same thing happening here. If Galliano really was celebrating the variety and differences in people he wouldn't present them as fashion show freaks in the process. Also his flair for exoticism (something discussed on this board before) is taken right out of a 1920's rascist cartoon with where some ethnic group is reduced to savages and their features over exaggerated.


This reminds me of the work of Diane Arbus who photographed many different people including dwarfs, the mentally challenged, and people with giantism. She would refer to them as "freaks" and portrayed them in less than flattering (and truthful) ways. Galliano hasn't allowed those people to be REAL people on that runway. Instead they have become even more "freaked" out and removed from our awareness...he's made them characters to laugh at not people to empathize with.

that's just my two cents.

absolutely agree with you mutterlein....I see this EXACTLY the way you do and this isn't making fashion democratic, despite what people may think to the contrary. Galliano makes me so angry.

 

[Lena]

karma for m-o-m's and mutterleins posts..
i also find his choice of 'theme' very discriminating, exploiting and rude..
he obviously has no respect..