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It was a starry show last night for Maison Martin Margiela as Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and other high-profile guests landed at the show which closed the Paris Haute couture season. This season started off with Valentino and Schiaparelli. 

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John Galliano, the creative director of Maison Martin Margiela presented Margiela’s new Spring Summer 2024 artisanal collection inside an abandoned, vaulted-ceiling venue along the Seine.

While big names adorned the front row of the show, Gwendoline Christie turned into a walking art as the Game of Thrones actress appeared in a milky white latex crinoline over a shimmering blue corset. To complete the look, her neck and hands were covered by a porcelain collar and skeleton hands. 

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The show started with French performer and drag queen “Lucky Love,” a Freddie Mercury impersonator. The impersonator opened the show wearing a man’s overcoat, then stripped it off to reveal his chest and missing left arm, singing a gospel version of his hit, “Now I Don’t Need Your Love.”

A silent black-and-white short movie by Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann was also screened immediately afterwards. 

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John Galliano’s much-talked-about haute couture show comes ahead of the release of a new documentary about the rise and fall and rise of the Gibraltar-born designer, a project in which he was an active participant. The documentary is titled High & Low: John Galliano and is directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald. 

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The docu-film was first presented at the Rome Film Festival in October 2023 and will release in theatres in the US in March. It follows the life of John Galliano, taking a look at his career from his first fashion show as a young genius student at Central Saint Martins, London’s most prestigious fashion and design school, to his association with brands like Givenchy and Dior.