GALLIANO BY JOHN GALLIANO F/W 2010

ASH STYMEST (SELEC MODEL MANAGEMENT)

LINDSEY WIXSON (MARILYN MODEL MGMT NEW YORK)

GALLIANO BY JOHN GALLIANO F/W 2010

BY JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO

John Galliano Spring 2010 RTW.

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

This season, there's been obsessive talk about the possibilities of making fashion events public via revolutionary digital technologies, so it takes an extra-special mustering of talent to remind everyone how unique an experience a great show can be in real time, witnessed on the spot.

Maryna Linchuk (VIVA)

For Spring, John Galliano did just that, conjuring up a magical scenario on a laser-lit runway, upon which floating bubbles descended and then—poof!—evaporated into vapor.

Caroline Trentini (IMG)

It created a dreamy parallel world for one of his best collections in a long time: a show poignantly evoking the era when the heroines of silent movies were facing their career demise.

Natasha Poly (WOMEN)

"It came from a research trip to L.A.," Galliano said. "I went around the old houses of Hollywood and imagined how stars like Tallulah Bankhead, Lillian Gish, and Mary Pickford lived."

Viviane Orth (IMG)

It gave him an ideal justification for playing to his strengths in poetically glamorous chiffon; bias-cut little nothings; fragile, delightful plissé puff-shouldered blouses and bed jackets; and coats symbolically decorated with clusters of flowers made out of film gel.

Anja Rubik (NEXT)

Galliano's color sense—the ice blues, silver lamés, powder pinks, and lemons—was exquisite; it was his fashion version of Sunset Boulevard.

Lily Donaldson (IMG)

This, of course, is the romantic territory Galliano has owned for years, but somehow, seen in this laser-created futuristic light, its imagery jumped to a new relevance.

Daria Strokous (WOMEN)

Triumphantly desirable as the clothes were, their meaning seemed doubly poignant—mirroring a moment when a new technology was putting an old world out of business.

Kelli Lumi (MAJOR)

Emma Maclaren (FORD)

Chanel Iman (VIVA)

Heidi Mount (IMG)

Siri Tollerød (MARILYN)

Sasha Pivovarova (IMG)

Lindsay Ellingson (VIVA)

Vlada Roslyakova (WOMEN)

Iekeliene Stange (MARILYN)

Yulia Kharlaponova (WOMEN)

Denisa Dvorakova (ELITE)

Anna Selezneva (SILENT)

Maria Kashleva (NATHALIE)

Michaela Kocianova (ELITE)

Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

Alexandra Tretter (ELITE)

Alexandra Tretter (ELITE)

Heloise Guerin (WOMEN)

Charlotte di Calypso (ELITE)

Ksenia Kahnovich (IMG)

Magdalena Frackowiak (ELITE)

Toni Garrn (WOMEN)

Frida Gustavsson (IMG)

Thana Kuhnen (NATHALIE)

John Galliano

John Galliano Spring 2010 Men´s.

Something unexpected happened in John Galliano's latest show.

It was the usual wall-to-wall spectacle, with the usual cast of thousands, painted and garbed to resemble anyone but themselves.

But, for once, it sort of made sense.

The theme was Napoleon's rise and rise, and—the Napster being a character whom Galliano effectively identifies with—the show's arc had a real cinematic drive.

An early highlight was the transformation of skinny white boy Cole Mohr into a flashing-eyed, olive-skinned corsair, but the real business was the outerwear that the corsairs got to wear.

A new chapter brought flower-wreathed Hellenes in an idiosyncratic mix of tailoring and…not-tailoring.

Cole Mohr

Impressive indeed was the way that a sarong was actually the new Galliano shirt (his signature newsprint over-printed with flowers) knotted around a model's waist.

Ash Stymest

Muslin-shrouded desert rats looked like wraiths in their sand-colored suits, but there were also denim jackets with cuffs crusted with embroidery.

Napoleon's Sicily sojourn featured one more opportunity for someone to display Simon Nessman in briefs, this time with a gilded torso (do designers make a bathing suit specially for him?) followed by a finale that impressively re-created the Napoleon of Abel Gance's 1927 movie, and gave him the outerwear of the season—a romantic, floating, multilayered frock coat—to wear.

Paul

Galliano's eye for detail is always admirably served by his team, but this particular outing managed to have its eye on the production and the product.

Romulo Pires

Julian Hennig

Jakob Weichmann

Gen

Simon Nessman

Nils Butler

Vladimir Ivanov

Patrick Kafka

Taylor Fuchs