Excerpt: MAISON MARGIELA ARTISANAL. SPRING 2024 COUTURE. PARIS

"John Galliano is the great storyteller of the fashion world, who has danced on that perilous edge of stardom in defining himself a the master Couturier, even though he did fall from grace.  Losing out to Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton group after he was sacked from Dior in 2011 and unable to claim back his Galliano namesake, which the LVMH owns over 90%.  Galliano's debut with Maison Margiela in 2015, re-established himself as the couture genius.   

A clever story teller can rework timelines, within its parallel worlds.  Beyond any postmodern prose, which can often lead into deeper obscurity.  It is the weave, the essence, which holds a conceptual idea together.  And what might seem indifferent and foreign, actual holds familiarity and acceptance that it be the imagination as a guiding light.  And what an imagination Galliano has, worked into a contemporary twist of historic overtures..." 

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Full Review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/02/maison-margiela-artisanal-spring-2024.html

(A.Glass 2024)