“High & Low – John Galliano” starts on April 26, 2024 on the streaming platform Mubi and can be seen in some cinemas beforehand – for example, presented with VOGUE on April 11 in Munich.
As chief designer of Givenchy and later Dior, John Galliano created extravagant fashion in the 90s and 2000s, staged pompous shows and set new standards – as the first British designer to head the design helm of a Parisian couture house. He dresses the big stars and plays as an “enfant terrible” in the top designer league alongside established industry giants such as Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani. But his career came to an abrupt end when videos emerged in 2011 showing Galliano, increasingly affected by alcohol and drugs, making anti-Semitic and racist insults to various strangers in Paris.
John Galliano then loses his job as head designer at Dior and at his own brand John Galliano. He retired, went into rehab, was able to rely on various supporting hands from the industry and was appointed creative director at Maison Martin Margiela in October 2014, where he still works today and only last January with his Haute-Couture-Show caused a sensation.
Archive image of Galliano and Anna Wintour
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This is what awaits you in the new Galliano documentary
“High & Low – John Galliano” – as the name suggests – sheds a nuanced light on the meteoric rise and equally precipitous fall of one of the most talented fashion designers of our time. Scottish-born director Kevin Macdonald, who has made numerous award-winning documentaries and feature films, including “One Day in September” (winner of Best Documentary at the 1999 Oscars) and “The Last King of Scotland” (2006), is clearly interested According to his own statements, Galliano was not big on fashion, but came to Galliano because of his interest in the social advancement and decline of a person.
2024-04-05 15:18:12
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