It's great.

I mean I come here to reconnect, stay in the present, pull out my favorite DNA book and dream.

I love to surround myself with objects for they inspire not just the energy they bring with them, but my relationship to them where I found them, the excitement of the unknown.

That one key in a door that opens the door and opens another door.

Another door.

The hunt if you like they create a dialogue and they stir emotions and when those emotions are starved, unable to create, I'm john galliano and today I'm really happy to share with you some of my objects of affection objects I've collected through the years whether it be traveling historically or geographically.

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Hello here we are In a run that used to be a winery which is where the monks lived in the 1700s and I would like to share with you this collage that I produced.

I was very lucky to meet a fabulous lady would madam sheriff as gypsy.

She has a cold excuse us.

She was running the museum and of a museum of Orbison and I was fascinated with the tapestries and it was there that I was introduced to these pieces of art.

Really called cartoons and cartoons are the fast expression if you like that.

The artist would make in gouache pains.

Sometimes you'll find borders or panoramic landscapes and I've kind of cut them up and put them together to create this collars And I love the idea that trump lawyer effect if you like of the real trees swaying and refracting in their light and then this image in front but I was playing with the idea of outside in and the inside out and it works, it works.

It's super relaxing in here.

It's great.

I mean I come here to reconnect, stay in the present, pull out my favorite DNA book and dream, I would love to introduce you to my favorite houseguest.

She's in a really good mood today.

So we're all super happy because yesterday her favorite hat was sent to paris and it was biked over this morning.

So she's super thrilled and I'd love to introduce you to Auntie.

Auntie is an artist model anti is 100 and 10 years old.

My sternest critic, she does all the fittings with me.

I found her in Montmartre and I kind of like to imagine that maybe she was struck a pose and inspired some of those younger artists who would have frequented that area.

This is Auntie Well, these are called Sudairi there 1750s I think from a Japanese monastery.

The best fun was choosing the accessories.

Some of them are even trimmed with gold Lami ribbons from Coco Chanel.

I was very lucky to meet a fabulous lady called Leeloo marco and she invited me to have tea with her at that first t the most wonderful thing happened.

I don't know if something fell out of her pocket or it was already on the floor, I really can't remember.

And she picked it up and it was like a little caution, a little pig.

And she offered it to me and while offering it to me, she informed me that it had been given to her by coca.

So along the walls you'll see a collection of paintings, drawings, ac where else photographs?

That mean a lot to me.

That mean a lot to me because they stir emotion and when emotions are stirred I can start to create.

And over here you'll see a fantastic black and white picture by Mr Pen Irving.

Then you had the greatest pleasure and honor to meet and to work with.

Often when I've been stuck on complicated dresses and things.

I just come on john you've got to work this out.

You've got to get this one because Mr Pence going to photograph it and somehow his energy penetrates me and the creative process.

And I always finish the dress.

So I like to have the spirit of Mr Penn in the room.

I always tried to work out the light and how did he do this?

And how was that in this shape?

And then when I saw the way he worked and that it was with God's light with the real light and that he would paint like a watercolor and around you.

It's really special.

I mean that's good energy.

This is a wonderful fashion illustration by a gentleman called Howard Tang how it is now retired, But up until not so long ago he was still the life drawing.

The fashion illustrating tutor at ST martin's School of Art.

I spent a lot of time with Howard you feel him breathing down your shoulder and neck.

My drawings were quite labored to begin with as they often are.

So he would give me a lot of tests if you like.

Okay, john we've got 60 seconds here.

I want you to get the spine down, map out the head and the hip and speed drawing.

I didn't really understand what was going on, but it was training the retina to stay on the subject and never looked down on paper.

And it was Howard who was really kind of building up, building up, building me up to become a fashion illustrator.

I'd love to invite you into the salon, jean.

That room has a wonderful energy And this is a fantastic yellow inspired from Pepita Vash.

So they would feed the cows mangoes.

We got a nickname for the Salon gene.

And that's Madame Le pigeon Salon.

Like with a lot of my collections, I created a narrative.

I wanted to produce some lumiere and also something that looked like it had been here when we moved in.

It hadn't.

I worked with a fantastic artist called Eloise DeJean.

I told him my fantasy if you like and an obsession with the 1700s.

And the idea to create this artwork.

She had to find a place that would be able to cook these tiles.

We had to find an oven that would take on the number of trials required so that it would all match.

It was quite a number to produce.

But I think you'll agree it looks like it's been here forever.

That is a great, great joy to contemplate and lose myself in the story.

The young boy watering his protege and offering flowers to the lady of the Manor.

I would love to introduce you to one of my favorite images.

It's an image by Brassai and it's of Madame bijoux.

Madame Le bijou has inspired many a collection.

I still lose myself in this image, the volume of the coat, the hat, while the jewels, the fallen stockings, the tap dancing shoes.

I mean, it's just an endless dialogue with Madame le bijou.

She's amazing.

I'm so happy to have shared these things with you.

I guess what one could learn from this is how much objects of affection mean to me and how through the dialogue I create and how I just suppose satin things, they stir emotion and it's a magical place to be.