PARIS, France — John Galliano will join Maison Martin Margiela as creative director, the brand’s owner, Renzo Rosso’s Only The Brave (OTB) group, has officially confirmed. The announcement follows weeks of market speculation that the appointment was imminent.
Galliano will oversee the design of all Margiela lines, including couture and women’s ready-to-wear. He will debut his first designs for the house during Paris Couture Week in January.
“Margiela is ready for a new charismatic creative soul,” said Renzo Rosso, president of OTB. “John Galliano is one of the greatest, undisputed talents of all time. A unique, exceptional couturier for a Maison that always challenged and innovated the world of fashion. I look forward to his return to create that fashion dream that only he can create, and wish him to here find his new home.”
The news marks Galliano’s return to fashion, following his unceremonious dismissal from Christian Dior in 2011 after the designer was recorded making racist and anti-Semitic remarks in a Paris bar.
The appointment is a surprising choice for Margiela, whose Belgian founder was known as fashion’s invisible man. Galliano, on the other hand, is renowned for his showmanship and the appointment suggests that Rosso has big plans for the Margiela brand.
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