'Fashioning Fashion' at LACMA's Resnick Exhibition Pavilion

John Galliano, a student of history unlike any other designer of his generation, has imagined runway collections from French Revolution-era street scenes, Napoleon-era cartoons and the life of Pocahontas. His globetrotting research trips are legendary, taking him from the teahouses of Japan to the ruins of Egypt. But who would have thought that when he wanted to see some of the world's finest examples of European clothing from the Age of Enlightenment to World War I, he would find them in Los Angeles?

By Booth Moore

August 29, 2010