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John Galliano designs essentially unwearable clothes. But his genius and artistry is so great that it really doesn't matter. As all fashion followers know, catwalk fashion is really about showing rather than wearing. The onus is on the ordinary folks, who can pick ideas from these creations and put together outfits which reference them.
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Galliano has always been more interested in past fashions than anything present.
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In this 2009 Paris Haute Couture Week, he has outdone himself, using Vermeer paintings and the blue color and designs of the Dutch Delft pottery as his inspiration for his Christian Dior collection.
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The good news is that he has found examples from our own centuries - using Alfred Hitchcock's films and Helmlut Newton's photographs as inspirations, and even tried his own version of the 50s.
