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If there is one Galliano show everyone should know, it is this one. It was staged on the grand marble staircase of the Opéra Garnier, and it was probably the most lavish spectacle he ever put on for Dior.
The muse was the Marchesa Luisa Casati, the Italian heiress who walked her pet cheetahs on diamond leads and wanted to be a living work of art. The clothes looked as if they had come straight from one of her parties in the early 1900s. Velvet gowns printed with Art Nouveau patterns were cut bare at the back. Opera coats were edged in thick mink. There were sheaths and skirt suits in lace, bias-cut silks and enormous picture hats covered in roses by Stephen Jones. The last section was a fancy dress ball, with a version of the Pulcinella costume Léon Bakst once designed for Casati herself.
For the finale, pastel tissue-paper butterflies rained down over the staircase.
It is pure fantasy and pure craft at once. This is the show people mean when they talk about the golden age of couture in the 1990s, and it has never been matched. Magic is the only word for it.
More Galliano: see every John Galliano couture collection for Dior and John Galliano: The Complete Guide.
Pictures courtesy of Vogue Runway
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