American Designer James Galanos Dies at 92 Inline
Photographed by Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos, Vogue, March 1, 19621/18“James Galanos, one of the most avant-garde designers, is equally good at pure flattery—as here: navy blue worsted that looks like a charming suit, is actually a charming dress, with a white linen dickey across the front.”
Illustrated by Rene Bouché with a photo by Bert Stern, Vogue, March 1, 19632/18“ ‘The thing about Jimmy,’ said a woman to her companion moments after the show had begun, ‘is that he has an absolute genius for the contemporary.’ Jimmy, of course, is the designer, James Galanos, a wiry, quick-smiling man who works in California and comes to New York twice a year to demonstrate that he has, as noted by the lady commenting on his newest designs, a special feeling for contemporary fashion.”
Photographed by Bert Stern, Vogue, May 1, 19653/18“Sudden colours, vibrant geometries, restless silks all interfered with marvelous fling and feeling—this is the Galanos collection, striking forth to summer, prescient at every turn.”
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, October 15, 19654/18“Triumphs of Galanos’s new collection: a feeling of luxury and excitement so strong, ‘it was like a waft of some fascinating perfume’—said one observer at the opening. The expected beauty of cutting and construction, with a sensitive awareness of the small-bones body under the clothes. . . . The surge of talent, creative, original, even joyous: Galanos at his sizzling best.”
Photographed by Bert Stern, Vogue, March 15, 19665/18“A seeming absence of colour, a seeming innocence of line: Galanos’s look for a woman this summer is unequivocal in its purity. Clean, cool, easy along the body. Simplicity itself. But achieved only through a fantastic mastery of cloth.”
