Editor’s Observe: Once we discuss Y2K in vogue we discuss a glance, however it’s 1999 that’s the turning level. As Nicole Phelps turns her consideration to this particular yr, we’re including 5 archival reveals to the archive.
John Galliano’s spring 1999 present was a Lawrence Alma-Tadema portray come to life as a tableau. A Dutchman, the Victorian painter labored from London and was finest identified for his stylized but reasonable depictions of the decadence of the Holy Roman Empire. Galliano tried one thing of the identical by littering the set with lyres, a rain bathe, and a bevy of male fashions lolling in loincloths amongst rose petals. Inspired to bounce and emote, the fashions wore garments that mixed references to the classical world, Romeo Gigli, and Mariano Fortuny, however that—with their Nineteen Thirties bias chopping—have been unmistakably Galliano.
