John Galliano ss08

[sphoxx]

Wow, talk about a statement...

"Galliano's profligate willingness to spin a show out of the most unlikely elements knows no bounds—the model in the stick-on beard might have been Castro or Bin Laden—so anyone with an eye to singling out something as banal as a commercial possibility must edit like a demon: There were Arabic-influenced prints, pieces with wire-stiffened definition, and tricksy camo items that looked promising. Johnny Rotten chanting "World Destruction" on the soundtrack was possibly closer to the real mood of the collection than any specific piece of clothing."

Tim Banks for style.com

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/145/00130mst4.jpg

The whole collection's basically caricatures of "terrorists" or bringers of the apocalypse; like a journey though the history of "evil" from a western perspective. Most pieces, totally unwearable, but as far as saying something with clothing.. dope! Other shows are so blah, commercial; schmegs around neck? fuckthat! at least someone's not afraid to make that reference properly. Gotta dig the fantasy every once in a while.

Kamikaze (wwII)

Desert Storm

Nam

Arab (oil war? all of them smoking)

French/North Africa/Gurrilla militant

USSR/Bin Laden

After we all nuke eachother....

fun stuff; he always knows how to tell a story.

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NICE. Always a fan of Galliano's work.

[ProfMonnitoff]

Wow. I was unsure how he would continue after his out-there AW07 collection, but this is just awesome. I like the North Africa inspired looks the most.

[sphoxx]

^^ for sure; beasing must've been hard to top... but I guess it's a continuation of war; he's moving from primal rage towards post-apocolyptic. His own entire universe, hah.

[evisu 2000]

as far as saying something with clothing.. dope! Other shows are so blah, commercial; schmegs around neck? fuckthat! at least someone's not afraid to make that reference properly. Gotta dig the fantasy every once in a while.

which is why i love galliano.

[James Vincent]

I see a lot of wearable pieces underneath the accessories, and I like them. There is too much gentleman in todays fashionable 'military' wear, not enough warrior and war lord.

[Icarus]

This was where I was going to tell the fashion industry to go fuck itself, but the lengths you have to go to make your clothing "speak" has set me a-chuckle.

[Servo2000]

I edited the original post, replaced the Style.com images with ones from imageshack. Just letting you know I wasn't censoring anything (just changing photos), but please, in future, if you're hosting a collection upload the pictures on imageshack or some other server.

I dig this.

[keagan]

of course, I like it.

The last collection was actually quite wearable, I already own two shirts and a pair of underwear from it. this looks even more wearable.

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Galliano underwear? niiiiiiice....

[lacquered]

I LOVE the African militant inspired one too, its out of this world. Although I cant see myself wearing it:p

[lacquered]

Im talking bout the red barret, with the gun print on the pants btw..

[cotonblanc]

Thumbs up to this. Any pictures of what Galliano wore?

style.com

[Lucas0607]

Galliano never fails to put on a good show.

I enjoy watching his shows specially the couture shows. It's like performance art, of course, the clothes art themselves.

[notesee]

Nice, I actually like this collection too. Diggin the pants in the Desert Storm pic, and the jackets from the guerilla militant looks.

[hannibal]

nice pant!