Galliano / Colin McDowell / Hardcover 1997 / and 50 similar items

Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, fine edges. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, moderate to heavy rubbing to back bottom edge, small tear at back bottom edge. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: When he first burst upon the fashion scene with his degree show at St Martin's School of Art in 1984. it was clear that John Galliano was an exceptional talent. But few could have predicted his rise to the post of creative director of Christian Dior, the most august and powerful fashion house in Paris. a mere twelve years, later. Right from the start., John Galliano has amazed people with the extravagance. wit and originality of his clothes. inspired in a love and knowledge of the past as much as by his obsession with the beauty of women. "lie is a maverick ? a leading light of the London club scene. a roisterer who thinks nothing of jetting to New York for a party. But he is also utterly committed to his art, and his skills and dedication place itin1 in the great tradition of the grand couturiers who were also artists: Poiret. Chanel, Schiaparelli and Balenciaga. Ile is a man with a unique vision of himself., his clothes and his times a man who is aware of the past but is entirely modern in his approach: a man with a revolutionary and subversive eye. And his trademark is romance the romance of unfettered fantasy., of quixotic garments spun out of fragments of the past. Galliano is immersed in the originality of English art. in the power of the Spanish visual tradition and the eclecticism of French cultural history ? not for nothing was his first show. inspired by the French Revolution called 'Les lncrovablesw. But realism underpins it all ?he is celebrated as much for the sheer virtuosity of his lechnique, and for his knowledge of what can and cannot be achieved with fabric and line. as for his extravagant flair and imagination.