I was going to postpone the Monday Hotness because I was “uninspired” by which mean I’ve got a hair appointment with Frédéric Fekkai’s former personal assistant/senior stylist who flies into town once every six weeks and I’m totally nervous and stress-eating those insidiously delicious pygmy carrots because I feel like I’m cheating on my long-suffering stylist with some hot new model, which –okay– I am, but I’ll be thinking about her the whole time.
**DEEP BREATH**
Whew.
Someone about whom I’ve also been thinking a lot is everyone’s favorite Funky Little Fashion Troll, John Galliano. John Galliano is a genius. There are a lot of talented designers out there but only a handful –I’d say McQueen, Gaultier and Lacroix, maaaybe Miuccia– are just out and out geniuses, and Galliano is one of them…maybe the best working today.
AND he loves women –all women– which is why he’s such a perfect fit for Dior. He understands our bodies and celebrates them. He has famously used plus-size women in his runway shows and even someone used to stunt casting can’t help but believe when Galliano says “Every body is beautiful” he means it.
“I don’t love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.”
“I’m an accomplice to helping women get what they want.”
“The problem is with men. I know I shouldn’t say this, but they’ve shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.”
“Women are women, and hurray for that.”
“Dressing up. People just don’t do it anymore. We have to change that.”
“I don’t care about money. I really don’t care. I just want to do what I do.”
