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John Galliano Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear Collection | Womens Wear by Bill Gaytten
The
John Galliano Company is a quintessential English Rose, a mix of savoir
faire and eccentricity and elegance. It is unique in the fashion
landscape, a romantic blend of craftsmanship, innovation and skilled
ateliers that create a brand that is as enchanting as the muses it
inspires.
With strong British roots, couture sensibilities, and a team gathered from around the world the John Galliano brand
creates a magical modern vision of beauty mixing the savoir faire of
the street with the refined techniques gleaned from the couture salon.
A new age of fashion was born when the house was founded in 1984 when
John Galliano graduated from London’s St. Martins College with his ‘Les
Incroyables’ collection. From London’s club scene to reinventing bias
cutting this unique new design aesthetic electrified the fashion world
and, in the early nineties they moved to Paris in search of a backer.
The new location brought the John Galliano brand to the attention of the
international fashion industry - from crinolines to Casati, Princesses
to Pin Ups, the collections were as spellbinding as they were
groundbreaking; the presentations were legendary: from Hotel
Particuliers to Circus Rings and Bollywood. This spirit of
adventure, energy and innovation is what inspires the ever-continuing
narrative of the John Galliano brand as creativity and glamour mix with
inspirations sourced from around the globe, galleries, and every
century. Skilled in-house ateliers and petits mains innovate techniques
and cut to create a signature that needs no translation. The technical
skills, tailoring and flou artisans and in-house ateliers are the
heart-beat that drives this house; couture techniques innovate new
standards of ready to wear as attention to every detail, from the bias
cut to silhouettes, prints to Gazette, make the John Galliano brand
irresistible. With Creative Director Bill Gaytten, who has
been with the John Galliano Company for over twenty years, the house is
at the beginning of a new era. "Design is what I love. It’s what I
have always wanted to do”. Born 1960 in Cheltenham, England, Gaytten
studied Architecture, at Bartlett School of Architecture, University
College London but was soon seduced by the cut, construction and romance
of fashion. It is his pattern cutting skills that have innovated many
of the key signature styles and drapes of the house, and push the
ateliers and craft of the house to the future.
Bill Gaytten cut patterns for John Galliano
for more years than he cares to remember. "I'm used to putting clothes
together," he said after the show today. And that's how he managed to
make his own subtle mark on a collection that otherwise honored the
codes of the house: tailoring, transparency, bias cuts, frills, ruffles,
nostalgia, romance. Gaytten cut a slip of a dress on the bias in pink
georgette and beaded it delicately with roses. That was pure
Galliano. But the new architectural quality—the fabric inserted into
seams, the chiaroscuro black and white evening effects—was Gaytten's.This article taken from Source
