John Galliano Spring/Summer 2007 RTW

"The Work of Fabergé, As Seen Through the Eyes of Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein"

Designer: John Galliano

Brand: John Galliano

Date: 7th October 2006

Location: Carreau du Temple, Paris

Clothes Team: Pat McGrath (makeup), Orlando Pita (hair), Stephen Jones (hats)

Runway Team: Bureau BETAK (production), Sébastien Meunier (props), Philippe Cerceau (lights), Videopolis (video), Jeremy Healy (soundtrack), Paul Morris (digital soundtrack)

Predecessor: Fall/Winter 2006 RTW "Gothic Americana"

Successor: Fall/Winter 2007 RTW "The Family That Eats Together, Stays Together"

Galliano had chosen a new venue – a nineteenthcentury indoor vegetable market with slatted shutters as a backdrop and rows of metal-canopied lights illuminating the runway. Anyone expecting fireworks after the restrained Dior "Back to Basics" collection earlier in the week was going to be disappointed. Galliano had tried to reimagine luxurious Fabergé enamels as seen through the eyes of contemporary artist Jeff Koons and pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The show opened with nicely tailored white suits, dresses and coats with hook-and-eye closures, some with triple-layered pockets at the hips, worn with white crochet platform shoes with ankle ties. Outsized poppies (Koons) and outsized spots (Lichtenstein) were printed or sequined onto the dresses, made into corsages or applied onto Edwardian-style skeletal wire-framed hats by Stephen Jones.

Slinky goddess-style dresses in pastel satin and chiffon had asymmetric necklines, some with single twisted satin shoulder straps (à la Vionnet). Twotone cocktail dresses continued the drapery and sequined details, some with metallic skirts painted with bouquets of Edwardian roses (inspired by Fabergé). The finale looks included 40s-inspired gowns with sequined motifs running down one side.

WWD, who usually applauded daywear and luxurious cocktail eveningwear, gave it a thumbs down, describing his daywear as “mundane”, the evening gowns “garish”, with embroideries that “looked like metallic stickers from the corner Hallmark store”. Galliano took his bows in black leather flat cap, black shirt with lace inserts, jeans and leather gun holster across his chest, but no bodyguards, for a change.

Model list:

Blue = Debut for the brand

1. Iekeliene Stange

2. Ekaterina Kashyntseva

3. Johanna Stickland

4. Alison Nix

5. Mariya Markina

6. Daiane Conterato

7. Agyness Deyn

8. Rachel Alexander

9. Kinga Rajzak

10. Irina Lazareanu

11. Michaela Kocianova

12. Ana Mihajlovic

13. Melody Woodin

14. Solange Wilvert

15. May Andersen

16. Anja Rubik

17. Lily Donaldson

18. Patricia Schmid

19. Sasha Gachulincova

20. Vlada Roslyakova

21. Behati Prinsloo

22. Eva Poloniova

23. Natasha Poly

24. Anna Mariya Urazhevskaya

25. Snejana Onopka

26. Marcelina Sowa

27. Hilary Rhoda

28. Cecilia Mendez

29. Denisa Dvorakova

30. Bruna Tenorio

31. Jessica Stam

32. Tatyana Usova

33. Katarina Ivanovska

34. Fabiana Semprebom

35. Coco Rocha

36. Freja Beha Erichsen

37. Sasha Pivovarova

38. Bianca Balti

39. Alana Zimmer

40. Gemma Ward

41. Romina Lanaro

42. Flavia De Oliveira

43. Yevgeniya Kedrova

44. Alexandra Tomlinson

45. Marta Berzkalna

46. Tanya Dziahileva

47. Magdalena Frackowiak

48. Viviane Orth

49. Kim Noorda

50. Milana Keller

51. Kamila Wawrzyniak

Soundtrack list:

1. Numb - Jamelia

2. Everytime - Britney Spears

3. From Me to You - Janis Ian

4. This Love - Craig Armstrong ft.. Elizabeth Fraser