PARIS, Jan 30, 2005/ FW/ --- In a ‘Peter Pan’ adventure, John Galliano turns fantasy to reality as his tailoring excellence and yearning for creativity transpires into a menswear collection of winter wonderland excitement.

His fairy tale world of exaggeration and the eccentric is full of floor length voluminous coats of fur and fleece, elongating the male torso, aided even further by long familiar street wear tops with hoods that hang under the buttocks.

Detailing is the key to this Galliano collection. He uses stitching to give and take volume via design on jackets and trousers that allow for rouged bending knees and large ankle cuffs.

His expected deconstruction of the male silhouette defines new shapes by increasing volumes, layering lavishness and destroying common sartorial forms that in turn transform his menswear wardrobe into an ironic synergy of a wearable imagination.

The journey continues from pirate uprising across lands of snow and ice, discovering English gentleman in cricket whites, jockeys and equestrian lovers in jodhpurs and silk shirts with rounded pageboy edges and riding jackets.

Signature Galliano newspaper print is tinged sand colored before modern day scarecrows in straw hats and designer patchwork appear to accompany Dorothy in her search for Oz. And just perhaps he is somewhere in Mongolia, hidden between tribesman and traditional warriors.

Though while urban winters are nowhere as near as harsh as those in the north east, Galliano’s imagination and winter interpretation is set to sizzle fashion hunters finger tips and credit cards.

John Galliano

John Galliano

John Galliano

John Galliano