John Galliano: feet firmly on the ground during economic downdown

Of course I’m sensitive to the economy. Of course I’m aware of it. I read the newspapers; I watch TV," he said Sunday. "But [dealing with it] is not my job. My job is to do the best I can to show the possibilities of Dior. When you’re standing in a hurricane, you have to keep your feet firmly on the ground. If you panic, whew…you fly away."Galliano’s notion of being grounded: a collection rooted in the parallel beliefs that Dior must not surrender its identity to recession, but that now is not the time to go iconoclast-crazy. He thus celebrated the house iconography in all its 1947 audacity. Along the way, he sometimes turned his tight jacket and bodice inside out in homage to Dior’s founder. "I really studied the constructions and discovered his soul," Galliano said. "I could read his decisions."

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