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During the early s, at the height of John Galliano’s fashion career, I would attend international fashion shows to file news for the London Evening Standard.
In an era preceding the ubiquity of smartphones, documenting these spectacles required a more analogue approach, relying on handwritten notes and sketches, rather than video recordings.
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Notepad pages from Galliano’s shows, for both his own brand and Dior, were by far the most elaborate.
Everything was to the extreme and never failed to become a talking point. I remember at one show the models wore huge criss-crossing false eyelashes.
One of the newspaper photographers picked up a pair a model had discarded as she ran from the show, rushing to the next. He wore them to dinner at Café Ruc that evening.
And then there were the end-of-show bows he would take, always dressed in a themed costume.
The audience would e