Nipples might not make it past the social media sensors, but there was no missing the rather sweet merkin visible through the sheer tulle as John Galliano’s latest Maison Margiela Artisanal show went viral. One could only stop and chin stroke to marvel, is the bush back?
Galliano’s inspiration came via the Hungarian-French photographer, Henri Brassaï, and his voyeuristic extrapolations of Twenties Parisienne society. Galliano mined that same underbelly of life, his show staged under the full moon, beneath Pont Alexandre III. Brassï’s dimly lit, over exposed pictures, shot at night on a Voigtlander 6.5, reflected the outer corners of his Montparnasse neighbourhood streets, inside brothels and bars — nudes replete with natural thick thatches of pubic hair.
