John Galliano an amazing dress designer

ShoppingFashion / Style

  • Author Davids Murphy
  • Published July 31, 2009
  • Word count 453

The designer of that wedding dress, and many others, was John Galliano, one of the top designers for Dior. That’s his professional name; his full name is Sir Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guillén, and he was born in Gibraltar, but moved to London at six years old. He attended St Martin's College of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1984 with a first class honors degree. He was awarded British Designer of the Year in 1987, 1994 and 1995, and shared the award in 1997.

Galliano’s wedding dresses are known for their traditional styles updated with modern touches, such as what he did with Stefani’s dress. He loves to employ bunching of silks and laces to his silhouette’s, and loves having his gowns employ corset style bodices. And most of the time he loves trains, which always adds a nice touch of glamour to any wedding dress.

But those modern touches are what set off Galliano’s dresses. For the Australian singer Eruca Baxter, he changed up his style somewhat for what was described as a Flamenco-style wedding dress, with a corset strapless bodice, a big white hand crafted flower cinched at the waist, then three separate layers of the silhouette evolving into a flowing train. The dress took over 600 hours to make, and cost around $100,000.

That wasn’t his only $100,000 gown. When Donald Trump married his present wife, Melania Knauss, her gown also came to more than that staggering price. The Donald isn’t known for being cheap, and he always wants the best, no matter what. This white duchess wedding dress, close-fitting with revealing décolleté, needed 300 feet of material and took over 1,000 hours to make, including over 500 hours of hand stitching and over 1,500 rhinestones and pearls in a swirl pattern. It also featured a 13 foot train; royal and then some.

By comparison to those dresses, the one Gisele wore would have been considered plebeian, but it was elegant nonetheless. All that anyone has seen have been grainy long distance photographs, but the official description of the dress was "a white silk satin bias cut long gown with spaghetti straps and train, with scalloped seamed details around the hip. The white silk tulle veil was six feet long with white lace sewn by hand". Some guests reported that she also had a short train of around 3 feet, which would have kept the veil off the ground.

It’s obvious that Galliano will go to any lengths to provide the perfect wedding dress for any of his customers, and, it seems, the resale of his wedding gowns is fairly high also. If you’re looking for glamour and have some money to spend, take a look at Galliano for your designer.

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