Tuesday 16 April 2013

Essay Research - Galliano Interview


In 2002 galliano decided that he was going to take Dior Couture House in to the 21st century, kicking and screaming, if need be. The old era of couture needed updating and some of the older, dustier ideas needed putting to sleep. Galliano believed that Couture needed and indeed had the potential to evolve in what was then the modern MTV generation of society.
Interview Transcripts
BY SHOWSTUDIO ON 2 MARCH 2002
Transcript of John Galliano's interview on 'Past, Present Couture' with Colin McDowell
http://showstudio.com/project/past_present_couture/interview_transcripts
This new couture has been happening, which has really started as well with people like Mr Arnault putting younger designers in these houses, or Jean Paul Gaultier who started a couture line. Thierry Mugler was even mixing couture and prĂȘt-a-porter together, so it does have relevance today. 
Galliano believed that the couture house was there to inspire the other houses under the Dior umbrella, so maybe some of the designers rely on their couture collection to inspire their ready-to-wear collection and perhaps without the couture journey the others roads will not be taken and the other collections could not and would not be as inspirational as they are.


 Galliano, J (2002). Transcript of John Galliano's interview on 'Past, Present Couture' with Colin McDowel. Available at:"http://showstudio.com/project/past_present_couture/interview_transcripts" (Accessed:20 March 2013)

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