In the latest chapter of his podcast series, John Galliano reveals his inspiration and the development of techniques used to create his ‘Artisanal’ 2021 collection and the film he conceived for its presentation. 

Through the grammar of haute couture, the quest is expressed in the alternative notion of neo-alchemy: the search for authenticity through scientific transmutations of shapes and textures of familiar garments, realised through harmonious dialogue with the natural elements.

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Executive production by KCD

Music and sound arrangement by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano

For his Spring Summer 2021 Co-Ed collection, Maison Margiela’s Creative Director John Galliano opens the doors to the world of the Tango and the societal values associated with it – community, interdependency and primal, instinctive connection. Heroic cutting, storied garments and iconic wardrobe pieces become the main characters in a three-act tale moving from a Victorian wedding, a procession to a dance marathon.

The designer illustrates how techniques developed in the Artisanal collection are artistically industrialized for ready-to-wear and the magic behind the numbers on the brand’s label.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano.

"Hope, heroism, and hedonism," John Galliano says, reflecting on his first Maison Margiela collection since the lockdown. In the latest episode of The Memory Of... With John Galliano, the creative director reveals the inspirations and techniques behind his Artisanal Co-Ed Collection for Autumn-Winter 2020 and the creation of the feature film he conceived for its presentation.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano.

For his Fall Winter 2020 Co-Ed Défilé collection, Maison Margiela’s Creative Director John Galliano continues his exploration of the gestures and uniforms associated with the bourgeoisie and our collective heritage. A return to worth, a sense of belonging evoking restorative sensibilities.

Recicla is introduced. Items carrying the new white Recicla label – listing provenance and period – are genuine authentic finds, handpicked by John Galliano, restored and re-appropriated as limited-edition garments or accessories.

The collection is a reflection of society today, a reminder of our need to being conscious, in the moment. 

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano

In the latest episode of his podcast series for Maison Margiela, Creative Director John Galliano identifies the nature of the bourgeois gesture employed in the collection’s cutting techniques and investigates the impact of heritage codes in the age of cyber-industrial revolution. Through the recycling of bourgeois codes, an upcycling process of values is proposed: a new bourgeois consciousness founded in ethical principles of luxury. The grammar of today.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer: Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano

In the latest episode of his podcast series for Maison Margiela, Creative Director John Galliano pays reverence to history and the lessons it taught us. Stories of hope, heroines and liberation remind us of the importance of remembrance.

Through his explorations of the digital age, Mr. Galliano illustrates new techniques employed in the SS 20 coed collection - projective filtrage, trompe l’oeil hack prints and nomadic cutting – and discusses new proposals of upcycling and key wardrobe pieces.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement for the podcast by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano

Maison Margiela AW19 'Artisanal' Co-ed Show

In the latest chapter of his podcast series, Maison Margiela’s Creative Director John Galliano further explores the theme of decadence. Reflecting on today’s culture of excess and the degeneration of social structures, he ponders on one’s need to reconnect and rely on one’s instinct. He talks about the language of consumerism and how it plays on our fetishistic impulse and, as a result, throughout his creative process. Projective filtrage, a new Artisanal technique, is developed to enhance the clichés of couture. Starting from his explorations of nomadic cutting, Mr. Galliano evolves his creative language with dresses and through new tailoring techniques.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement: Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer: Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived "THE MEMORY OF... With John Galliano" podcast series for Maison Margiela

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With John Galliano

In this latest addition of his podcast series coinciding with his Paris shows, Maison Margiela Creative Director John Galliano takes listeners on a creative journey through his AW19 Co-Ed collection. He gives insight into how he has abstracted Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and how the classic story is relevant today; from the Artisanal, he continues his exploration of decadence and our oversaturated society and how it proposes a new minimalism; talks of Generations Y & Z as the growing future power of luxury; describes degenerating and re-appropriating a t-shirt, halter top, MacKintosh and even offers a DIY for an old pair of trousers.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement: Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer: Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived "THE MEMORY OF... With John Galliano" podcast series for Maison Margiela

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement: Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer: Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived "THE MEMORY OF... With John Galliano" podcast series for Maison Margiela

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maison Margiela’s SS19 Co-ed Show

In the fourth of his series of fashion show podcasts, Maison Margiela Creative Director John Galliano reveals the liberating thinking behind his latest Paris collection where he explores fit, cut and drape without consideration for gender for women’s and men’s wardrobes. The designer finds this new genderless approach to his design process surprising and transformative. He reveals social media infuentials and popular culture figures whose defiance and individuality inspire him and he looks back at the self-expression that defined his own youth. 

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement for the podcast by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement for the podcast by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

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Maison Margiela AW18 ‘Artisanal’ Women’s Show  

Maison Margiela debuts coinciding with its Artisanal Women’s show in Paris the second podcast in its enthusiastically received series: ‘The Memory of...With John Galliano.’

It’s a first of its kind fashion podcast series that takes you on a journey to Creative Director Galliano’s Paris Atelier where he personally reveals the thinking behind his ‘Artisanal’ or haute couture women’s show.

Galliano speaks to his continued exploration of proposing the idea of a new glamour and how through cut and layering and volume creating now what the Maison calls “Nomadic Glamour”, and how a simple shape like a cape with some swift scissoring by Galliano evokes a tailcoat. He also muses on the word “cool” and shares his observations of Neo-Digital Natives and the influence of the digital landscape on him and his work. And how his memory of Faye Dunaway’s coral pink lipstick is propelled into the collection as a Techno Sorbet.

Music and sound arrangement by Jeremy Healy.

Black Saturn, Nicholas Hill, Luciano Ugo Rossi, Glenn Herweijer; Ben Sumner. KPM Music

When The Clock Stops, Nikky French. KPM Music

Breakacuda,Benjamin Medcalf. Anger Music

Circus Caravan MYMA. Justement Music

Flight Remembered, Nicholas Hill, Glen Herweijer, Ben Sumner. KPM Music

The Arrival, David James Caton, Harry Valentine. Anger Music

Etude in e major, Frederic Chopin, Tolga Kashif, KPM Music

Warhammer, Darren Mudge. Anger Music

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement for the podcast by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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Maison Margiela Artisanal Men’s Show

Coinciding with the house’s first Artisanal Men’s show, Maison Margiela launches a new first of a kind fashion podcast series: “The Memory of ... With John Galliano.”

The podcast tells a story usually only heard by select fashion insiders. It takes you on a journey to Creative Director Galliano’s Paris atelier where he personally reveals the thinking behind his first Artisanal Men’s Show. He speaks to new definitions of masculinity and femininity, his introduction of bias cut to menswear and the sensuality it brings to a tailored suit and the current regeneration of menswear with new top designers at luxury houses. 

Executive production by KCD Digital

Music and sound arrangement for the podcast by Jeremy Healy

Sound engineer Tayo Popoola

Pinatas - Matthew Corbett, Mike Wilkie, Universal Production Music

Tribal Tribulation - Benjamin Medcalf, Anger Music Library

Fight Or Flight - Edwin Makromallis, Anger Music Library

Cante Y Jaleo - Juan Luis Leprevost Artiach, Antonio Ramirez Pedraza, Universal Production Music

KCD Digital conceived THE MEMORY OF podcast series for Maison Margiela

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