Weeks after the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute canceled its planned John Galliano exhibit for 2027, the infamous designer has successfully brought a different project to fruition: his debut Zara collection. Launching Thursday, “Vol. 1” of his two-year partnership includes outerwear, dresses, tees, suiting, knitwear, lingerie and accessories, all priced from $30 to $999. An accompanying campaign was photographed by Steven Meisel.
For the collection, titled “Re(form),” Galliano deconstructed and reimagined Zara’s “archives” (past collections) through techniques such as physical and digital hacking, shrinking, magnifying, swatching and splicing. For example, an “archival” coat is revamped into a net dress with faux fur trims; a shirt is graded up three times its original size to resemble a leather coat; two trousers are cut and repurposed into sans-culotte pants; and a lace shift dress is refashioned into a ruffled collar.
Photo: Steven Meisel/Courtesy of Zara
Deconstruction wasn’t the only theme on Galliano’s mind: The collection also drew inspiration from Les Incroyables and Les Merveilleuses, the defiant dandies and divas of post-Revolutionary France. They’re “evoked in contemporary guises through subversive and illusory compositions,” according to the brand. “In the process, they appear through alternate lenses: the bourgeois spirit of the gardening wardrobe, the cinematic glamour of film noir.” Their influence appears in the overcoats, breeches and frock coats.
Galliano’s Zara collaboration follows a years-long (and perhaps ongoing) effort to rehabilitate his image. In 2011, the designer was infamously caught on video spewing racist and antisemitic comments at Jewish and Asian patrons of a Paris café. He was quickly fired from his Dior gig, and later entered a drug and alcohol rehab program. Much of the fashion world has slowly welcomed him back: He quietly helped create Oscar de la Renta’s Fall 2013 collection and was hired by Maison Margiela as creative director the following year. (He resigned in December 2024). Celebrity stylists continue to dress their clients in Galliano’s designs, and his work had a major presence on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet.
Zara x John Galliano campaign.
Photo: Steven Meisel/Courtesy of Zara
Amid its own upmarket rebrand, Zara announced a two-year creative partnership with the designer in March 2026. Not long after, news broke that he would be the subject of next spring’s dedicated Costume Institute exhibit and Met Gala, but the plans were canceled just a month later due to significant backlash.
So, how will the public respond to his Zara collection? The Spanish retailer is about to find out. Zara x John Galliano will be available to shop online-only in the U.S. starting Oct. 1 at 4 a.m. ET. Get an early look at the full collection below.
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