Love Quote by John Galliano

Galliano’s line is an unvarnished mission statement for fashion as seduction rather than craft: he’s rejecting the idea that models are neutral mannequins and insisting that clothes are designed to collide with flesh. “Dolls” is the industry’s ugly shorthand for the compliant, standardized body - the runway “blank.” By refusing that word, he tries to position himself as an artist of living women, not a stylist arranging toys.

The subtext is riskier. “I love women” reads like admiration, but the next sentence narrows love into anatomy: “I love their bodies.” That pivot reveals the old tension at the heart of couture spectacle. Fashion sells empowerment in the language of choice and identity, yet its visual engine is still eroticized display and control of silhouette. Galliano isn’t pretending otherwise; he’s saying the quiet part out loud, and the bluntness is doing work. It dares you to see desire as a legitimate design material, the same way bias-cut silk or corsetry is.

Context matters: Galliano’s career is built on theatrical narratives, fetish references, and heightened femininity - women as heroines, courtesans, pirates, aristocrats. In that world, the body isn’t incidental; it’s the stage. The quote also lands differently after decades of criticism about objectification, ultra-thinness, and the fashion system’s appetite for “doll-like” youth. What could be read as devotion can just as easily sound like entitlement: love framed as looking, not listening. That ambiguity is the point, and it’s why the line still stings.