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I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

John Galliano

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John Galliano
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 28
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Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillén
John Charles Galliano
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