Before Dior, John Galliano had already established himself as one of the most gifted designers of his generation. His own-label collections from the mid-1980s through the 2000s remain some of the purest expressions of his creative vision - romantic, theatrical, technically extraordinary.
Galliano's breakthrough came with Les Incroyables (Autumn/Winter 1994), a collection inspired by the French Revolution's dandies that secured him the Givenchy appointment and, soon after, Dior. But his own line continued to produce remarkable work: bias-cut silk dresses that moved like water, deconstructed tailoring that appeared to be falling apart while fitting perfectly, and references that spanned centuries of costume history.
His mastery of the bias cut - a technique pioneered by Madeleine Vionnet - was unmatched among his contemporaries. A Galliano bias dress is an engineering feat as much as a fashion statement.
The Galliano pieces in our archive represent this singular creative voice at its most unfiltered. Each piece is authenticated and selected for its significance within the Galliano oeuvre.
