One rainy Tuesday afternoon last October, John Galliano pulled up to a
building just off Marylebone High Street in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac
Escalade, with an assistant and two designers in tow. He was there to take a
look at the largest archive of traditional Greek costumes outside Greece,
accumulated by Lykion Ton Hellinidon London, a charity created in 1979 to
preserve and disseminate Greek culture. Galliano stumbled upon it while
researching his latest collection – a process that involves months of trips,
books, sketches, photographs and carnets de voyage. He then called my mum,
the charity’s president, to arrange a visit. My mum duly called me and
pretty much everyone else she knew (keeping secrets not being one of her
strong points).
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