“Before I received my CBE [in 2001], you can imagine that I was in a real state,” John Galliano says, “especially after all the months of preparations.” Here, the designer reflects on his memories, and the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II.
I was born in Gibraltar and spent the first six years of my life there. My father was Gibraltarian and my mother was Spanish, but I was a child of the Commonwealth. When we arrived in London, my parents experienced a feeling perhaps best described as—and the personification of that feeling was Her Majesty the Queen. We forget now, but the Seventies in London were a crazy time, acrazy time, when people often had to run out of tube stations or department stores because of bomb threats.
The Queen also inspired in my father a real sense of British pride that he passed on to me. Every Christmas, our entire day was built around her 3pm speech, which we’d watch sitting in silence, hanging on her every word. And ever since then, on each and every Christmas—it doesn’t matter where I am—I’ve tuned in for her speech: scanning what she’s wearing, what’s on her desk, is Nick’s [photographer Nick Knight] portrait of her in place in the room she’s sitting in.
For Galliano, the Queen's immense sense of style was inseperable from her sense of tradition and duty.Her Majesty was a beacon of Britishness, dressed in colors of joy and optimism.
I’ve always been surrounded by portraits of her, whether at my grammar school in South London, in the Boy Scouts, right down to the deli across the road from Taboo [the infamous Eighties London nightclub]—they had one behind the counter! And of course one thinks of the early portraits by Cecil Beaton, these immaculate exercises in shaping the image of a young Queen yet to form the identity we know so well today, from the early Princess—poised, elegant, full of grace and charm—to a mother...
Galliano has long responded to the Queen's style - from headscarf to Barbour to sensible shoes - even if he has twisted it a little—or a lot.
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