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John Galliano was born in Gibraltar in 1960 before moving to London in 1966. His life took a change when he moved to Paris in 1991. After winning over the French Press and buyers esteem with his own collections he became the designer of Givenchy Ready to wear and Haute Couture Collections. The Galliano customers can find a wide range of products in his signature line, including Ready to wear Clothes, Bags, Shoes, Scarves, Gloves and Sunglasses.

Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano was born in 1961 in Gibraltar of Spanish parents Anita and Juan Carlos Galliano. In 1966 his parents emigrated to London with Juan and their two daughters. He attended Wilsons Grammar School and excelled in languages. While doing his A levels, he took up textiles and put together a portfolio to present to St. Martins
College of art and was accepted.

During his studies, Galliano experimented a lot with bias cutting, reviving and refining. He then worked with Tommy Nutter, in Savile Row, London's famous tailor's street. He noticed that sleeves swung forwards, as if cut on the curve, so that you could really move your arms. He began cutting sleeves in a spiral so that his armholes could be neat and even cut trousers on the bias to make legs look slender.

In 1984, his graduation collection at St. Martins was 8 garments called "Les Incroyables" a fantastic, impeccably produced series of garments based on French Revolutionary garments of the 1790's. Joan Burstein of Browns, snapped up all the dresses and put them in her window. They sold out at once, one was bought by singer Diana Ross. John Galliano was offered a job in New York, but just as he was leaving, Joan Burstein called him for a repeat order. He and his friends made the garments at top speed and he was on his way to success.

In 1985 while designing clothes for the album cover of Malcolm McLaren's Madame Butterfly, he met Amanda Grieve (later Lady Harlech) who was a fashion stylist noted for
originality. They worked together on a series of exotic collections with names like "Afghanistan repudiates Western Ideals" and "Fallen Angels" or "Blanche du Bois" or "Lucid Game". She has remained his friend as well as a muse who takes an active part in his creative process, accessorising his extraordinary clothes with frail twiggy birdsnest hats and shoes like 18th century.

A year later, Galliano created a scissor dress cut to cross in front of the body to form a basque at the hip. In 1988 he created a disappearing lapel on a jacket, followed by an
L-shaped skirt and a "winking" seam which opened at intervals to expose flesh.

In 1988 he was named British Designer of the Year.

During the late 80's, John Galliano worked out of a studio in Parsons Green, London and worked hard, sleeping under his cutting table. He found himself adrift, and packed up and left for Paris. There a friend lent him studio space and Andre Leon Talley, creative director of American Vogue, took him under his wing and introduced him to everyone important in Paris. In 1989, he started presenting collections of slinky bias cut Dresses. In 1992 John Galliano presented his "Princess Lucretia" collection with extravagant crinolines.

In 1995, John Galliano presented his "Back to the 40's" Collection. Bernard Arnault, president of LVMH who owns the couture houses of Lacroix, Dior and Givenchy chose Galliano to revitalize Givenchy. Galliano and Givenchy share one thing, their dedication to their craft. Galliano tried for years to express his complex ideas of cutting and draping against great odds. Those who expected Galliano to trash Givenchy were wrong. Among daytime clothes were several homages to the old master, suits with belted jackets, a beautiful dress with bows on the pockets and he even named a sleek black gown "Audrey Hepburn" after one of Givenchy's most famous clients.

In 1996 Galliano's two collections for Givenchy were great successes. Then another surprise, after only one year, Bernard Arnault moved Galliano over to Dior.

Late in the year of 2001, John Galliano was awarded a C.B.E. by Queen Elizabeth of England, for his services to fashion. When word got out, there was great speculation as to what outrageous clothes he would wear for the ceremony. However, he was quite sober, only wearing the customary morning coat made by Brioni but without a shirt underneath. It was the eve of his 41st birthday.

John Galliano is also known to have once dressed Diana, Princess of Wales in a now famous dark blue lace-edged evening gown.

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