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BoF’s editor-at-large, Tim Blanks, sat down with John Galliano in Maison Margiela’s Paris headquarters to watch the latest film he has made with director Olivier Dahan for MM’s Spring 2022 Co-Ed collection.

Film has become Galliano’s fascination over the past twenty months.  The designer who was responsible for some of the grandest live spectacles fashion has ever seen in the glory days of the Nineties and Noughties was seduced by the idea that, with all the restrictions of the pandemic, he could still make memorable, even startling visual co-relatives for his clothes.  “There was no way I was not going to create, even if it was with a small team,” Galliano says. “This idea that through film we could reinforce the ethics of house took on a great appeal for me.”