There are designers. There are Paris-based designers. There are Paris catwalk shows and there's Dior designed by John Galliano. No surprises the man behind these extraordinary clothes is a little, dare we say, special himself. A star ever since he first graduated from Central St Martins in 1984. What's even more exciting than his wild creations is what the theatrical fashion wizard will wear to take his bow. No one pulls off bonkers quite like Galliano. As with Vivienne Westwood, Galliano looks to no particular current trends for inspiration preferring to plunder costume archives and history books. The result which first electrified the eighties fashion scene is still causing reverberations two decades later. Romantic and outrageous are his trademarks. It takes an unusual mind to dream up his eye-catching fashions. It takes a genius like Galliano to turn around a flagging French fashion house and make it one of the most successful luxury brands on the planet - helped by sales of accessories, perfumes, make-up and an eccentric Brit at it's helm.