Fashion career profile
Bill Gaytten
Bill Gaytten is a British fashion designer whose work spans the John Galliano studio and Dior. He trained in architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, before moving into couture at Victor Edelstein. In 1994 he followed Galliano to Paris, working across the designer’s own house and his appointments at Givenchy and Dior. After Galliano’s dismissal from Dior in 2011, Dior’s official archive identifies Gaytten as studio director and says he designed the next four collections before Raf Simons was appointed in 2012; this was an interim studio role, not a permanent artistic-director appointment. During the same transition, Gaytten was named creative director of the John Galliano label, whose menswear show he led. His career is notable for long studio continuity, pattern cutting and translating a designer’s concepts into finished collections. This profile separates the Dior interim remit from the John Galliano label title and does not treat the latter as a confirmed current role.
- Role
- Fashion designer
- Nationality
- British
- Career appointments
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- Fashion houses
- 1
- John Galliano — Creative Director2011–End not documented · status not documented
- Education: Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCLBritish Vogue identifies his architectural training before he entered couture. · British Vogue
- Studio career: Worked with John Galliano for 23 years by 2011The period covered Galliano’s own label and his Givenchy and Dior appointments. · British Vogue
- Interim house role: Interim Dior studio director, 2011–2012Dior’s archive says Gaytten designed four collections between Galliano’s departure and Raf Simons’s appointment. · Galerie Dior
- Creative direction: Creative Director, John Galliano label, appointed 2011British Vogue reported the appointment in June 2011; the end of the role is not established here. · British Vogue
- 1994 — Moves to Paris with John GallianoBegins a long studio partnership spanning Galliano’s own label and his house appointments.
- 2011 — Takes interim design lead at DiorDior’s archive credits him with four collections during the vacancy before a permanent appointment.
- 2011 — Named Creative Director of the John Galliano labelThe label appointment was distinct from his interim studio role at Dior.
- 2012 — Dior appoints Raf SimonsThis ends Gaytten’s documented interim Dior studio leadership.
- 2011–2012 — Interim Studio Lead — DiorHistorical appointment · Vogue