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Galliano portrait: Paolo Roversi/Art + Commerce. Center image: Courtesy of Tomo Koizumi. Lettering: Jessica Nichols.
When Rihanna ascended the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018 Costume Institute exhibition “Heavenly Bodies,” channeling Catholic panoply in a coruscating pearl-and-crystal-encrusted minidress and full-skirted robe designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela Artisanal—replete with a papal miter fashioned by Stephen Jones—she showed us, as we noted then, “why she continues to inspire the fashion faithful.” Designer Tomo Koizumi, a Galliano admirer since the age of 14, when he first saw the designer’s work for Dior, recalls his delighted surprise at Rihanna’s appearance. “It was a very sophisticated look that betrayed my expectations in a good way,” he remembers, so he was both...
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