it's John Galliano's trench

yong joon is wearing a 2008 Srping Collection of John Galliano

when photo of yong joon arriving in JFK last apr 20 came out mixed emotions about his attire surfaced on baeboards ^^. others are curious who's the designer, what's written at the back, who chose his attire.

as of this very moment, i've finally come to know what brand of traveling trench he's wearing. it's by John Galliano. hee, thanks to 모리스 of kob for letting us know.

after seeing some of his designs and fashion show by surfing, i find his designs wild and too extreme. check out his fashion show here , click here for this 2008 Spring collection, and here to read about his fashion show style.


now who is John Galliano?

John Galliano belongs to the train of incredible Paris talent that began with Paul Poiret and extended through Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier. Mr. Galliano is part showman, part engineer of magical seams, part devil.

Since January 1997, he has been the design director of Dior, responsible for haute couture and ready-to-wear collections, as well as accessories and his own John Galliano line. His shows are distinguished for their material and creative excess, all in keeping with the splendor of the Dior name.

Yet as recently as the early ’90s, Mr. Galliano was nearly destitute. His taste for extravagance and for romantic narrative Russian aristocrats fleeing into exile with only their petticoats did not square with the more practical demands of financial backers. He ran through several before meeting, in 1995, Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH, and the majority owner of Dior.

Because of his understanding of feminine beauty and his ability to evoke it in a rippling piece of silk, Mr. Galliano also had the support of several influential women, notably Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue; Amanda Harlech, a former magazine editor and stylist; and the late socialite Sao Schlumberger, who gave Mr. Galliano money for his first Paris show and lent him a house on the Left Bank for another presentation.

Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillen was born in Gibraltar on Nov. 28, 1960. In 1966, the family moved to South London, where his father worked as a plumber. John enrolled in Central Saint Martins, graduating in 1984. For the next five years, he struggled to find a footing and money. In 1990, he left London for Paris.

The shows that Mr. Galliano put on in the early ’90s were exhilarating, in part because his energy and talent were so exposed. In a collection set around the romantic adventures of a Princess Lucretia, he used electrical wire from the BHV department store in Paris to give volume to full skirts.

In 1995, Mr. Arnault chose Mr. Galliano for Givenchy. Within two years, Mr. Galliano was given the top design job at Dior. There, his methods, to say nothing of his wild appearance, were met with doubt. He wanted the clothes cut smaller and closer to the body. As he explained to Raffaele Ilardo, the chief of the atelier, “You need to slash it more.” In time Mr. Galliano changed people’s eyes.

In July 1999, he mounted the Matrix collection, a couture show that almost literally took apart Dior’s classic tailoring and reassembled it as a new, more chaotic form. He followed with a ready-to-wear collection that introduced the Dior saddle bag and logo denim.

He had an exceptional year in 2007, with a spring haute couture collection inspired by Madame Butterfly and a polished fall ready-to-wear show. In July, he staged a huge show at Versailles, for Dior’s 60th anniversary.

In an interview in July 2007, Sidney Toledano, the company’s chief executive, said of Mr. Galliano: “Some people think he’s very fragile, and he’s not.”

Mr. Toledano continued: “The guy has survived all his life.”

source : vogue.com