John Galliano once again worked with director Olivier Dahan, to paint a portrait of “utopian youth” devoted to environmental and communal awareness. Here he reveals why film is still the most powerful way for him to tell his story.
John Galliano’s Spring 2022 Film For Maison Margiela Is an Ode to Post-Pandemic Youth
“Revelers of the night,” John Galliano whispers under the screeching electric guitar of the film’s soundtrack, his delivery as tantalizing as the cinematic imagery unfolding before our eyes. We are in the white-painted converted convent (and one-time nightclub) of Maison Margiela on Rue Saint-Maur, sitting on two bianchetto salon chairs for a screening of his ready-to-wear film. His newest vision is a slickly beguiling follow-up to July’s haute couture spectacular, A Folk Horror Tale, directed—like its prequel—by Olivier Dahan, who helmed Marion Cotillard’s La Vie en Rose and Nicole Kidman’s Grace of Monaco.
With a rock‘n’roll score on full blast, it’s a different experience to the haunting celluloid poetry of his last film. Seditious and seductive, it snaps you out of the time-traveling universe he created this summer, and transports you into a decidedly disruptive disposition. Quite literally, the camera extracts from the frames of the fantasy to reveal the set. If the haute couture film was full-on illusion, this one goes behind the scenes, only to infuse that scenario with more make-believe on a very meta level.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Anders Christian Madsen
