Designer’s quick-witted and optimistic vision dominates the Paris showJohn Galliano’s first menswear collection for Maison Margiela opened with a red and black double-breasted overcoat worn with black,spongy slippers. It closed with a white shredded mackintosh over beige muslin underpants. In between, there were plastic sandals which clonked along the catwalk like ski boots, or several of Margielas famous split-toed tall-heeled tabi boots and a quick-witted yellow padded jacket,blown up like a pufferfish, paired with a sober midi-length skirt. According to notes distributed at the exhibit, and the theme was “dressing in haste. The plan was to merge “past and present house ideas into one forward proposal for a new kind of glamour”.
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Source: theguardian.com