Index Code:

FAS–OTH–GAL

Orgin:

Gibraltar / Paris, France

Field Notes:

excess as discipline · history as hallucination · beauty as theatre

Defining Moment:

Spring 2004 — Egyptian couture show as myth and opera; spectacle became architecture

John Galliano

(

1996 – 2011

)

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Galliano turned couture into hallucination.

His Dior was theatre in perpetual motion — courtesans, pirates, queens reborn in silk and excess.

Beauty became delirium, history a costume for emotion.

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Within his world, fantasy was not escape but architecture — chaos composed to precision.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In John Galliano’s work, this approach appears where narrative construction follows costume logic.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In John Galliano’s work, this approach appears where narrative construction follows costume logic.

Hard Systems

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Fashion

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Dior

John Galliano

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

John Galliano

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue