Not long ago, VOGUE visited the home of the pirate Grandfather John Galliano.
Good guys, everyone immediately rushed to watch, this legendary design master who brought Dior into his heyday, the family is not more exciting than the show!
Netizens who have watched the interview video have also been completely broken,
"Is the pirate master so gentle?"
If today's pirate grandfather is like a little old man who has no quarrel with the world, then more than ten years ago, he was the arrogant prodigal son of the fashion industry...
At that time, he set avant-garde, retro and hopeless romance in one, and in terms of design, he took the retro of Europe and the mystery of Asia and Africa, and created evil charm and breathtaking.
Born at the turn of the century, the pirate has become a dazzling gem in the fashion world within a few years...
01
Rise from tall buildings, feast guests,
Then... the house collapsed
John Galliano was born in Gibraltar in 1960.
He loved to dress up since he was a child, and he was always treated as an "outlier" at school; coupled with his childhood, his parents took him for a long time to live, resulting in John's extreme lack of identification with the surrounding environment.
Until he was admitted to the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Central Saint Martins, a first-class institution that is inclusive and creative!
John in St. Martin, like back to the happy hometown, he not only spent the liberating nature of the university time there, too cattle X graduation works were also wrapped by the famous London buyer Browns, and Gucci and other first-line big names, at the same time was displayed in the window.
Soon, Dior also had his eye on him.
At a time when new ideas were budding and the exciting millennium was approaching, Dior, who had experienced bankruptcy, made a flag: I want to find a genius designer who is crazy, and then quietly surprise everyone!
John Galliano, who interpreted maximalism in a witty and moving way, was the chosen son.
Unlike today's catwalk, the models are like clockwork, walking boring assembly line cat steps;
His runway is like a drama that catches horses and is gorgeous. The model came on the scene and instantly transformed into a living retro celebrity,
From the light sarong tent as thin as a cicada's wing, the enchanted came;
At the door of the cold and quiet manor, the mysterious hostess appeared in a high profile from the carriage.
In the pirate grandpa's whimsical couture show, will sigh: now the couture is which door couture wow!
In 2007, The Butterfly Lady gained the knees of a group of fashion spirits;
But few people know that in the same period, they also had to work on their own series of the same brand and maintain a super high design standard.
(Left: Dior's Spring/Summer 2007 Couture Collection Right: John Galliano's Fall/Winter 2007 collection)
However, genius also has creative bottlenecks.
The pirate master, who is in charge of more than thirty series a year, has actually been dependent on alcohol and drugs. It wasn't until the racist remarks that he woke up like a dream...
Overnight, he was fired from Dior and paid a large sum of money.
At that time, there was a lot of discussion behind the incident, some saying that alcohol made him delirious; some saying that the shadow of childhood bullying made him reflexively protect himself;
There are more conspiracy theories, saying that at that time, Minimalism such as Celine and Jil Sander was prevalent, and Dior had long wanted to break his contract with the extremely popular pirate grandfather...
In short, the pirate grandfather after the "collapse of the house" gradually faded out of the public eye, he moved out of the apartment in the center of Paris, ran to the mountains and forests to "make a demon".
02
After the "collapsed house",
He wrote for himself in the mountains and forests
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
Wilde once wrote that saints have a past, and sinners have a future.
Looking down on the glitz of Vanity Fair, John can't wait to wash his body and mind. He went to Picardy, an inconspicuous village in the north of France, which was quaint and picturesque, not too far from Paris.
Just build the future here.
The old house with a history of more than two hundred years is not easy to strengthen and renovate.
But obsessive-compulsive disorder, like a pirate grandfather, is to be able to remove, number, and copy the roof tiles piece by piece.
Perhaps it is a change of mood, in the process of renovation, the decoration style gradually becomes natural.
On the beams, light vines are freely coiled, and under the eyes, there are all eye-catching green plants.
Like the wallpaper on the wall, it also adopts the pattern of natural scenery, which reflects the greenery of the room.
Wallpaper is also not a brand, it is the collage art that John encountered by accident during his travels. Each piece is a separate landscape, but put together to produce a unified visual effect.
The pirate master smiled as he admired it,
"I'm tired and I'm here to relax."
Walking to the garden, the breeze is gentle and the shadows of the trees are dappled.
The pirate grandfather pointed to one of the cypress trees and regarded it as a treasure, and even the dents on the trunk of the tree were conceived by him as the traces of the 18th century prisoners being tied to the tree and flogged...
It seems that although the decoration goes by the natural wind, the core is still a pirate-style bustling dream.
03
From the runway to reality, the dream continues
How deep does the pirate dream? Let's taste it.
It is also a crystal chandelier, but his family's style is that of a pirate ship adrift in the waves.
During his more than a decade at Dior, he traveled extensively across Asia and was fascinated by the mysterious oriental narrative.
On the Fireplace of European Style, decorated with blue and white tiles;
When traveling, the 18th-century bamboo curtain brought back from Japan.
"These distant and ancient objects give me unlimited space for fantasy."
Even if he took out a random painting in a room full of paintings, he could tell the story incessantly.
"Their hidden stories stir my mind, and when emotions fluctuate, the inspiration is there."
Although the pirate grandfather moved to the countryside far away and no longer stood on the glowing platform at the tip of the pyramid, the romance did not die, and the beautiful dream has been continuing.
Perhaps from a moral point of view, he is a branded sinner,
But in the heaven of dreams, he is still high above and cannot be shaken.
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