John Galliano was born in Gibraltar but moved to London where he grew up. After graduating from City and East London College, he enrolled at Central Saint Martin where his whole graduation collection “Les Incroyables” was bought by Joan Burstein and put in Brown’s boutique window; he graduated with a first class degree. Galliano gained lots of respect and became well known in the fashion industry but due to lack of money, was unable to show for several seasons. In 1984 Galliano established his own fashion label of romantic, desirable, delicate and dreamy themes.
He moved to Paris and in 1995 Galliano became the head chief designer of Givenchy but soon rumours surfaced that fellow British Designer Alexander McQueen was to take over at Givenchy and Galliano moved to Christian Dior. Now he is recognised as fashion’s great romantic with a wild persona whose colourful background has a direct influence in his work.
In February 2011, Galliano was arrested for an alleged assault of him making anti-Semitic remarks towards people in a bar in Paris. As a result, Dior dismissed Galliano from his role as creative director.
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