John Galliano's Winter Wonderland
by Anna Eimerl posted on March 12, 2009Yesterday was the last night of Paris Fashion Week but John Galliano had no intention of letting the momentum slide. Yesterday, the theatrics were only in the fashion. After escaping the PETA protestors outside there was more protesting from grumpy photographers, because they were left waiting outside for hours (what‘s new?), but once the show started Galiano soon had everyone utterly mesmerized. He showed us a typically extravagant vision for the Autumn/Winter of 2009-10 and drew inspiration heavily from traditional Russian dolls, sexy Siberian princesses and tales of folklore. The collection was bursting with opulent headdresses, balloon-sleeved peasant shirts, and full skirts all with stunning embroidery on them that showed amazing attention-to-detail. The colour palette was icey silver, white and grey and then wonderful bursts of red and blue.
The models were ghostly beautiful, they almost looked like virgin brides and were covered in a snowy, icey shimmer that made them almost glow. The nomadic and nostalgic feeling was driven home by the help of tinkling coins, carved wooden lace-up platform heels with pom poms attached and the heavy embroidery which dazzled everywhere.
But the highlight was the presentation itself in a winter wonderland, the mood could not be better to frame the models walked in a beautifully color-illuminated snow storm on the catwalk. There was no heating so it felt genuinely wintry, and suddenly wind swept through the show space, a fog crept over and snow started to magically fall from the ceiling (rather amusingly the fake snow did induce the front row to suffer a collective asthma attack but hey you have to suffer some times for beauty). The show was probably the best of the whole fashion week – total theatrical brilliance from the master of illusion!







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