Where's John?
While a flurry of designers made their debut in new jobs during Fashion Month, John Galliano was suspiciously quiet.
Also in this issue:
Fashion Adventures on the Queen Mary 2
Ralph Lauren goes postal
Some rather large news from me
“Who’s John Galliano?”
That’s what the British airline desk agent said when I handed her a copy of my book, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano as I checked in for at the Southampton, England airport for my flight to Paris.
No, I don’t usually bribe airline personnel with signed books for better treatment—though that is a good idea. I was flying home from the Fashion Week Transatlantic Crossing on the Queen Mary 2—more about that below—and my suitcase was overweight. Pulling out, and handing over, two books made the difference.
The point of this tale is that while she and her colleague were excited to read about McQueen, who died 15 years ago, she had never heard of John Galliano.
It’s understandable. Though throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Galliano was Britain’s m…
