John Galliano In Conversation With Nick Knight On The Future Of Fashion

John Galliano joins Nick Knight in conversation to discuss creating S.W.A.L.K. , a fashion film cum documentary for Maison Margiela Artisanal A/W 20. Here Galliano describes mourning the fashion show as we know it, and creating a new blueprint for fashion's future with Knight. The frequent collaborators discuss their over two decade long artistic relationship, and how this led to a new imagining of Maison Margiela. Describing fittings with Galliano’s muses, the atmosphere on Knight’s set and illuminating the core values of the house to the world via film, Galliano details a desire for transparency and new beginnings for the Maison. Made in collaboration with SHOWstudio, S.W.A.L.K. opens the doors of the Margiela Atelier like never before via a myriad of film and surveillance techniques such as GoPro’s on the heads of the petite mains and drones flying into the studio. The process documentary features Knight's signature image manipulation and brings in such disparate references as the 80s club scene Blitz Kids, the veiled marble statues of the 1800s, and mysterious happenings in the Margiela Maison. Content Edit: Calum Knight